Court Opinion

ID: 9683473
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:29:22.780775+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:48.095500
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TIPTON, Judge,
concurring and dissenting.
I concur with the affirmance of the one burglary, the attempted theft and the possession of burglary instruments convictions. I dissent from the reversal and dismissal of the remaining three burglary convictions. I believe that the evidence justifies all of the convictions that the defendant received and that we need not determine in this case whether State v. Anthony, 817 S.W.2d 299 (Tenn.1991), applies in any fashion to the offenses of burglary and attempted theft.1 The very fact that not every attempted car theft involves a burglary — a point conceded in the majority opinion — renders the reasoning in Anthony inapplicable to this case.
If we were confronted with a case in which the sole proof for an attempted theft was the breaking into a car, then it might be worth considering an Anthony due process analysis — because, then, every burglary would necessarily prove the crime of attempt to commit the felony or theft intended. But we are not. In each instance, the defendant committed acts inside the cars that were unrelated to the breaking and entering, but were evidence of attempted thefts. I would hold that the separate convictions are justified.

. In any event, contrary to the implication in the majority opinion; I doubt that we can claim that this court has found that the “Anthony principles” apply in cases not involving kidnapping— the crime that is necessarily proven upon proof of such assaultive crimes as rape or robbery. As for the reference to State v. Cornelius T. Luster, No. 02C01-9201-CR-00019, Shelby Co., 1992 WL 345443 (Tenn.Crim.App. Nov. 29, 1992), the majority opinion fails to note that the lead opinion’s application of Anthony apparently did not gain the support of the other two members of the panel, one concurring in results only and the other expressly rejecting the use of Anthony.