State of Tennessee v. Dustin William Russell

Defendant, Dustin William Russell, was convicted by a jury of second degree murder, reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm into an occupied habitation, and three counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.  Defendant was sentenced to a total effective sentence of thirty years.  On appeal, Defendant claims the trial court gave an improper instruction for second degree murder, the evidence was insufficient to support his second degree murder conviction, and the trial court abused its discretion in its application of an enhancement factor and in its failure to make findings to support partial consecutive sentencing on the dangerous offender factor.  Following a thorough review of the record, the briefs, and oral arguments of the parties, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.