State of Tennessee v. Gary E. Brown

Defendant, Gary E. Brown, was indicted by a Knox County Grand Jury in case number
122940 for aggravated assault by strangulation, domestic assault, false imprisonment,
interfering with an emergency call, and two counts of violating a no contact order.
Defendant was later charged by information in case number 125355 with domestic
aggravated assault. In case number 122940, Defendant pled guilty to domestic assault and
was sentenced to 179 days for which he had credit. In case number 125355, Defendant
pled guilty to aggravated assault with an agreed-upon sentence of three years suspended to
probation, with the trial court to determine after a hearing whether Defendant would
receive judicial diversion. Following the trial court’s denial of judicial diversion,
Defendant appeals arguing that the trial court abused its discretion in denying judicial
diversion. Following our review of the record, the briefs of the parties, and the applicable
law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.