Court Rulings

The plaintiff, Raymond Boschetto, appealed from an amended decision pending entry of final judgment terminating his marriage to the defendant, Cindy Boschetto, on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. On appeal, the plaintiff challenged the trial justice's assignment of certain assets as well as her determination of the amount of his child support obligation. The Supreme Court upheld all of the trial justice's assignments of assets as well as her determination of the amount of the plaintiff's child support obligation. Specifically, the Supreme Court held that the trial justice properly followed the language of the parties' premarital agreement when she evenly divided the contributions the defendant and her employer made to her 401K account since the marriage began between the parties and did not allocate any of the appreciation in value of the account to the plaintiff. The Court also held that the trial justice did not abuse her discretion with respect to her allocations between the parties of the defendant's other investment account, the parties' joint bank account, and the parties' individual bank accounts. In addition, the Court held that the trial justice did not abuse her discretion when she found the plaintiff's earning capacity to be higher than what he had earned from his immediate employment based on past years of personal income tax returns and corporate tax returns related to his solely-owned business. Accordingly, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Family Court.

The Defendant, Ronnie Ray Myatt, appeals the judgments of the trial court following a June 25, 2018 probation violation hearing in which the court revoked his probation in case numbers CR7357, CR7358A, and 22CC-2010-CR-115. The Defendant argues that the trial court lacked jurisdiction in the first two cases because the sentences for those cases had expired prior to the filing of the revocation warrant. The Defendant also requests that we remand to the trial court for entry of a modified judgment in case number 22CC-2010-CR-115 to award to the Defendant applicable jail credits. The State concedes that the sentences in case numbers CR7357 and CR7358A expired before the filing of the instant revocation warrant and that the trial court therefore lacked jurisdiction to revoke the probation in those cases. Although not raised as an issue by the Defendant, the State argues that the trial court appropriately revoked the Defendant's probation in Case Number 22CC-2010-CR-115. Following our review, we reverse the probation revocation orders in case numbers CR7357 and CR7358A, affirm the revocation of probation in case number 22CC-2010-CR-115, and remand to the trial court for determination of the appropriate jail credits to be applied toward the Defendant's sentence in the latter case.

This appeal arises out of an inmate's lawsuit alleging that an employee of Loves Truck Stop filed a false police report. The trial court dismissed the suit on September 4, 2019, for failure to file an affidavit of indigency and failure to comply with Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-21-407. The inmate, Brent G. Pitchford, filed a notice of appeal with the clerk of this court on December 16, 2019.