State v. Moss

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the Sentencing Reform Act of 1982, as amended, embodies a policy that sentencing determinations should begin with the presumption that the minimum sentence should be imposed. Defendant, Leonard Moss, was convicted of second degree murder in the Hamilton County Criminal Court on September 27, 1984.

I

In the early evening of Friday, May 6, 1983, Defendant was observed by Chattanooga police officers driving at an extremely high rate of speed on a heavily traveled street in Chattanooga. Chattanooga Police Officer Lee Stewart estimated that…