Terrance Lavar Davis v. State of Tennessee

OPINION

in which WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined. SHARON G. LEE, J., filed a concurring opinion. GARY R. WADE, J., filed an opinion concurring separately, in which JANICE M. HOLDER, C.J., joined.

We granted permission to appeal in this habeas corpus case to address the legality of a plea-bargained sentence requiring the defendant, being sentenced for two cocaine offenses committed in a school zone, to serve twenty-two years of a Range I sentence at “100%.” The defendant alleges that his sentence is illegal because it makes no provision for the possibility of early release…