ELIZABETHTON â A man who had been accused of holding a Dominoâs delivery driver at gunpoint in 2020 pleaded guilty in Carter County Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and aggravated assault.
Eric Rodney Banner, 47, was sentenced by Criminal Court Judge Lisa Rice to eight years on the unlawful possession charge. That sentence is to run consecutively to a three-year sentence for a conviction in Unicoi County. Banner was categorized as a standard offender and will have to serve 30 percent of the sentence before he is eligible for parole.
On the aggravated assault charge, Rice sentenced Banner to three years, to run concurrently with the unlawful possession sentence.
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ELIZABETHTON â Three men charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 10-year-old Lillyhanna Davis made their first appearance in Carter County Criminal Court on Monday morning.
Jason Bryan Barber II, Jediah Shane Glover, and Zachary Scott Scalf each appeared before Judge Lisa Rice to enter not guilty pleas. Each man was dressed in the red and white striped uniform issued to prisoners of the Carter County Jail who are charged with felonies. The men have been held in pretrial confinement since their arrests in November.
In addition to the murder charge, each man is also facing eight counts of reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. The men were originally in General Sessions Court, where they underwent a preliminary hearing on Jan. 8. Following that hearing, Judge Keith Bowers Jr. ordered them to appear in Criminal Court on April 12.
ELIZABETHTON â A Carter County man pleaded guilty in Carter County Criminal Court on Thursday to a charge of killing his mother.
John Christopher Ralph, 53, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Edith Betty Ralph. He had originally been charged with first-degree murder.
Criminal Court Judge Stacy Street sentenced Ralph to 22 years in prison. According to state law, there is no release eligibility for a person convicted of second-degree murder. The law says Ralph will serve 100% of the sentence imposed by the court, less sentence credits earned and retained. But the sentence can only be reduced by a maximum of 15%.