Elijah Truitt v. State of Tennessee

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE Assigned on Briefs September 11, 2012 ELIJAH TRUITT v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Appeal from the Criminal Court for Davidson County No. 99-D-2942 Seth Norman, Judge No. M2012-00100-CCA-R3-CD - September 25, 2012 The petitioner, Elijah Truitt, appeals the summary dismissal of his motion to correct his sentence, claiming that his sentence is illegal. The petitioner’s claim that the trial court erroneously imposed a day-for-day service requirement to his 11-year effective sentence is without merit. Thus, the trial court’s summary dismissal of…