State v. Harkins

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Tennessee from a judgment entered by the Court of Criminal Appeals reversing the decision of the trial court revoking the community corrections sentence imposed upon Emily Rose Harkins, Defendant-Appellee. The sole issue on appeal is whether the revocation of a community corrections sentence is subject to a de novo standard of review as held by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Although we affirm the results reached below, we hold that the intermediate appellate court should have applied an abuse of discretion standard of review.

In 1988,…