State of Tennessee v. John Clayton Fields III

The defendant, James Clayton Fields II, appeals the determinations of sentencing and judicial diversion made by the Cheatham County Circuit Court. The defendant’s convictions of aggravated assault and three counts of child abuse and his effective three-year sentence all resulted from his nolo contendere pleas. The State did not oppose judicial diversion, and the manner of service of the effective sentence was left to the trial court’s determination. The defendant appeals the trial court’s denial of probation and judicial diversion and the order to serve the three-year effective sentence in confinement. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.