State v. Blouvett

OPINION

BIRCH, Justice.

The Court of Criminal Appeals found that the trial court had misconstrued certain statutory sentencing provisions 1 in establishing Corby Martin Blouvett II and Dennis James Ogle, defendants, as Range III career offenders and sentencing them as such. Specifically, the court held that the prior convictions used to enhance a defendant’s status beyond that of a standard offender must have been reduced to judgment before the commission of the offense which supports the enhancement. We granted the State’s appli cation for review under Rule 11, Tenn. R.App.P. in order to…