### IN THE COURT OF CRIMI NAL AP PEALS OF TENNES SEE AT NAS HVILLE A ssi gne d on Br ie fs D ec em be r 14, 200 4 a t K noxv ill e STATE OF TENNESS EE v . TIM B RAWLE Y Appeal f romthe Circ uit Court for Willi am son Coun ty No. 1-2001-01- 19-A Russ Heldm an, Jud ge

No. M2004- 01409-CCA -R3-C D - F iled Fe bruary 1, 2005

The de fenda nt, Tim Br awley , appea ls from the Wil liamson County Circuit Court’s order revoking his probation. On appea l, he claims that the trial court lacked jur isdiction to revoke his probation beca use his sentenc es had e x pired be fore the violation warr ant was issued. We disag ree and af firm the trial court’s order

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Te nn. R . A pp. P . 3 ; J udgm e nt of t he Ci r c uit

Co ur t i s A ffirm e d.
J A M ES C UR WO OD W I TT , J R ., J. , d e li v e r e d th e o p in io n o f th e c o u rt, in w h ic h G AR Y R. W ADE , P.J ., and A L AN E. G L EN N , J ., joined.
R o b e r tT

. C ar t e r , F r a n k l i n , T e n n e s s e e , f o r t h e A p p e l l a n t , T i m B r a w l e y.
Pa ul G . Su mme rs , A tto rn e y Ge ne ra l & Re po rt e r; Ka thy D. As lin ger, As sis ta nt A tto rn e y Ge ne ra l; Ronald L

. Davis, Dist rict Att orney Gene ral; and Mary Katharine White, Assist ant District Attorney Gene ral, for

the Appellee , State of Tenne ssee.
OP IN ION
B a se d u po n h is g uil ty ple a s, the de fe nd a nt wa s c on vic te d on Ma rc h 5, 20 01 , o f the ft , possession of Schedule I I drug s, possession of S chedule I V drugs, possession of drug para pherna lia, and possession of burg lary tools. The sentences were imposed to run concur rently and y ielded an eff ective se ntence of two y ear s, six months. The defenda nt was orde red to ser ve 120 day s in jail and the re mainder of

the sentenc e on proba tion. His probation supervisor sig ned a violation warra nt on Fe bruary 18, 2003, and filed the war rant on the sa me day

. On April 7, 2003, the super visor signe d and filed an amendme nt to the violation warra nt. Both the orig inal war rant a nd the amendme nt were serve d on the def

endant on April 2, 2004. The trial court conducted a revoc ation hearing a nd revoke d the def

endant’ s probation by

order enter ed on May

4, 2004.
The de fenda nt now appea ls, raising only the i s s u e o f whether the tria l court had jurisdiction to revoke his probation. Specifica lly , he cla ims that his s entenc es expired prior to the-2-

issuance of

the war rant. To support this claim, he arg ues t hat t he trial judge signe d and issued the violation warra nt on September 18, 2003. He posits that his sentence s beg an running on Marc h 5, 2 0 0 1 , a n d t h a tt h e t w o
- ye ar , s i x
- m o n t h e f f e c t i v e s e n t e n c e e x p i r e d o n S e p t e m b e r 5 , 2 0 0 3 , 1 3 d a ys befor e the wa

rra nt was issued.
The de fendant raised the jur isdictional issue in the t rial court, and the trial judg e, who also issued the wa

rra nt, found that the not at i o n ap p ea ring above his sig nature on the war rant that
rea ds “The 18 day

of September , A.D. 2003,” w as a ty pog raphic al er

ror. th The probation officer

signe d the war

rant, a nd the judg e ac knowledg ed his signature on Fe bruary

18, 2003. The wa

rra nt bear s a stamped filing date of Fe bruary 18, 2003. Moreove r, the April 7, 2003 amendment to the war rant re fer ence s the war

rant a s dated F ebrua

ry 18, 2003. Ba sed on these fa cts, the state c laims that the rec ord supports the trial court’s finding that the war rant wa s fully issued and fi l ed o n Fe b ruary 18, 2003. The state posits that bec ause the Fe bruary 18, 2003 war rant wa s issued within two y ear s and six months of Marc h 5, 2001, the sentenc e had not e x pired, and the tria l court had jurisdiction to revoke the def endant’ s probation.
“I f the probation revocation warra nt is iss ued within the term of t h e s en t ence, the issuance of t he warra nt commence s the revocation proceeding s and thereby interrupts the running of the probationary period ‘until suc h time a s the trial court [m ay ] hea r and deter mine the issue raised by the [warra nt] .’” Sta te v . S ha ffe r, 4 5 S

. W

. 3 d 5 5 3 , 5 5 5 (T en n
. 2 0 0 1 ) ( q u o t i n g Mc Gu ire v . S tat e , 200 Tenn. 315, 320, 292 S.W .2d 190, 193 (1956)) (empha sis added). Thus, the jurisdictional issue befor e us is deter mined by when the violation wa

rra nt was issued.
Te nn e sse e Rul e of

Cr imi na l Pr oc e du re 36 pr ov ides th a t “ [c]le ri c a l mi sta ke s in judgme nts, orders, or

other pa rt s o f t h e re co rd and e rror s in the rec ord arising fr om oversig ht or omission m ay

be cor rec ted by the court at any

time and af

ter such notice, if any , as the c ourt order s.” I n our view, Rule 36 e ffe ctively authorized the trial court to elide the “Septembe r” r efe renc e in the date of the trial judg e’s issuanc e of the wa rra nt, once the c ourt deter mined that the war rant err oneously

ref err ed to September

2003 instead of F ebrua

ry
. Moreove r, the c ircums t an ce s s u p p o rt t h e t ri al co u rt ’s d et er m i n at i o n t h at “S ep t em ber” wa s er ro n eo u s l y

i n s er t ed

. T h e is s u i n g j u d ge, wh o wa s t h e ju d ge du ri n g t h e r ev o ca t i o n p ro ce ed i n g, acknow ledg ed the a ff

i ant’s si g nature on the war rant. The acknow ledg ment is dated F ebrua ry 18, 2003. The wa

rra nt was stamped f

iled in the trial court c lerk’s o ff i ce o n Fe bruary

18, 2003. Appar e n tl y , th e d a te s w e r e ty p e d in to th e w arr a n t b y th e a f f ia n t o r th e a f

f ia n t’ s a g e n t. The amendment to the wa

rra nt refe renc ed the war

rant “ dated” Fe bruary

18, 2003. These c ircumstance s support the conc lusion that the j udg e si g ned and issued the warrant on Fe bruary 18, 2003. Thus, the judge issued the war

rant be fore the def

endant’ s sentence expired, and ac cording ly the trial court had jurisdiction to revoke the de fenda nt’s probation.

The judg ment of the trial c ourt is affir med.-3- ___________________________________ J AMES CURW OOD WI TT, J R., J UDGE