State of Tennessee v. Adrian Antonio Jones

The Defendant, Adrian Antonio Jones, pleaded guilty to several drug and other offenses occurring between 1992 and 1994.  According to plea agreements, he was granted concurrent sentencing.  In 2014, the Defendant filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1 alleging that his concurrent sentencing for two of his pleas was illegal and that, since any subsequent sentencing was based upon his illegal sentence that those sentences are also “illegal.”  The trial court agreed that one of his convictions was statutorily required to run consecutively, and it granted his Rule 36.1 relief as to case number 8775.  The trial court held, however, that the other sentences were not illegal as they did not violate any statute.  After a thorough review of the record and applicable law, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.