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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs September 7, 2011

STATE OF TENNESSEE V. MICHAEL W. PARSONS
D irect Appeal from the Circuit C ourt of Tipton County
N o. 6030 Joseph H . W alker, Judge

N o. W 2010-02073-CCA-R3-C D -Filed December 15, 2011
A jury convicted the defendant of tw o counts of aggravated assault, one count of burglary of a vehicle, and tw o counts of theft under $500. The trial court subsequently sentenced the defendant as a Range I standard offender to three years on each of the aggravated assault convictions; one year on the burglary conviction; and eleven months, twenty-nine days on each of the misdemeanor theft convictions. The trial court ordered the sentences on the felony convictions to run consecutively, for an effective sentence of seven years. On appeal, the defendant claims five errors: (1) the trial court wrongfully deprived him of his right to counsel; (2) the trial court erred in sustaining the State

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