TN+Theft+Local+Case

State of Tennessee v Marion Shawn Laughrun Assigned on Briefs February 24, 2004 Court Case On September 5, 2001, Marion Shawn Laughrun was indicted on one count of theft of property valued over $500 from Johnson county Internal Medicine and one count of theft of property valued over $1000 from his aunt, Dorothy J. Sult. On November 9, 2001, the appellant entered guilty pleas to both of the foregoing charges. The appellant received concurrent sentences of one year for the conviction for theft over $500 and two years and one day for the conviction for theft over $1000. The trial court suspended both of the appellant’s sentences. On March 12, 2002, a probation violation warrant was issued against the appellant, alleging that he failed to comply with several rules governing his probation. Notably, the warrant stated that the appellant failed to obey the laws, citing as proof his arrest on March 9, 2002, for aggravated robbery and his charges of writing six bad checks to Ingles grocery store while on probation. The appellant, Marion Shawn Laughrun, pled guilty to two counts of theft in the Washington County Criminal Court and received a total effective sentence of two years and one day in the Tennessee Department of Correction. The trial court granted the appellant probation on both of his sentences. While on probation, the appellant pled guilty to attempted robbery and received a sentence of four years incarceration in the Tennessee Department of Correction. As a result of the new conviction, the trial court revoked the appellant’s probation on the theft convictions and ordered the original sentences to be served in confinement. Additionally, the court refused to grant the appellant an alternative sentence on the attempted robbery conviction. The appellant appeals both the probation revocation and the denial of alternative sentencing. Upon review of the record and parties’ briefs, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.