Opinion
No. W2008-02675-CCA-R3-CD.
October 6, 2009 Session.
Filed June 9, 2010.
Appeal from the Criminal Court for Shelby County; Nos. 02-08616 and 02-08617; James M. Lammey, Judge.
Judgments of the Criminal Court are Affirmed.
William D. Massey and Lorna S. McClusky, Memphis, Tennessee, attorneys for the appellant, Patrick Trawick.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; J. Ross Dyer, Senior Counsel; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; Betsy Carnesale and Greg Gilbert, Assistant District Attorneys General, attorneys for appellee, State of Tennessee.
D. Kelly Thomas, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Alan E. Glenn and Camille R. McMullen, JJ., joined.
The Defendant, Patrick Trawick, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of one count of premeditated first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault related to the death of his estranged girlfriend and the aggravated assault of her companion. The jury found life without the possibility of parole to be the appropriate sentence for the premeditated first degree murder count. Following a separate sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed concurrent six year sentences for the two aggravated assault counts to be served consecutively to the sentence of life without the possibility of parole. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred by (1) failing to recuse itself, (2) ruling admissible for impeachment purposes the Defendant's prior rape conviction, (3) admitting crime scene photographs of the victim's body, and (4) failing to instruct the jury regarding all lesser included offenses for premeditated first degree murder. Following our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.