State v. Douglas Bryan Boruff

• Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
• Decided: March 17, 2000
• Docket: E1999-00274-CCA-R3-CD
• Status: Published

Opinion

FILED March 17, 2000

Cecil Crowson, Jr. Appellate Court Clerk

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE

STATE OF TENNESSEE, Appellee,

V. No. E1999-00274-CCA-R3-CD

DOUGLAS BRYAN BORUFF, Appellant.

CONCURRING OPINION

I fully concur with Judge Riley’s opinion. The only purpose for this

separate opinion is to note my belief that, in this case, aggravated sexual battery

and sexual battery are lesser-included offenses of rape of a child under part (a)

of State v. Burns, 6 S.w.3d 453, 466-67 (Tenn. 1999), see Tenn. Code Ann. § §

39-13-504, -505 (1997), and that under the scheme of the Burns test for

determining lesser-included offenses, the application of part (a) should be

determined before analyzing part (b). I agree that, pursuant to the Burns test for

determining whether the proof justifies an instruction on a lesser-included

offense, the proof in the present case did not warrant an instruction on

aggravated sexual battery. Neither did it warrant an instruction on sexual

battery.

___________________________________ JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., JUDGE