State v. Preston

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether defendant, in pleading nolo contendere to a drug charge, explicitly reserved the right to appeal a certified question of law that was *648dispositive of the case, in accord with the requirements of Tenn.R.Crim.P.. 37(b)(2)(i).1

The Court of Criminal Appeals held that defendant had failed to include any reference to the reservation of a certified question of law in any of the orders entered in the trial court in the course of disposing of defendant’s plea of nolo contendere. Thus, the Court of Criminal Appeals did not reach the merits of the…