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   The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied an appeal filed by a convicted rapist   
   in Rutherford County. The denial was officially filed this past week, after   
   the case in question was previously denied by the lower court of Criminal   
   Appeals of Tennessee at    
   Nashville, which denied the request filed by Elgene K. Porter on April 19,   
   2021.   
      
   In July of 2009, a Rutherford County Circuit Court jury convicted Elgene K.   
   Porter on charges that included conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary,   
   attempted aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, two counts of aggravated   
   kidnapping, and aggravated    
   rape. Porter was sentenced to spend forty-two years behind bars, but claims   
   that the sentence was illegal.   
      
   Porter, who previously lived on Center Pointe Drive in Murfreesboro, was   
   convicted for the rape of a woman whose two-year-old daughter was nearby as   
   the attack took place. Evidently, the mother who was in her mid-twenties at   
   the time, was attacked at    
   gunpoint and bound in duct-tape in her own home by Porter and two accomplices.   
      
   Court documents show that Porter and two accomplices ransacked the home of the   
   Smyrna victim after breaking into it, an ordeal that lasted over three hours.   
      
   In his original appeal filed before the Court of Criminal Appeals, Porter   
   claimed that he was illegally sentenced as a violent offender and that he was   
   entitled to be sentenced as a Range I, Standard Offender with a thirty percent   
   release eligibility.    
   After the appeal was denied this past April, the case went to the Tennessee   
   Supreme Court where Porter reiterated his his claim of being wrongfully   
   sentenced.   
      
   In April, the State dismissed Porter’s appeal because he failed to state a   
   colorable claim for relief under Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure 36.1.   
   After the appeal was officially denied 4-months ago, Porter filed an appeal   
   with the Tennessee    
   Supreme Court, which was denied this past week (August of 2021).   
      
   43-Year-old Elgene Porter won't be eligible for release until October 13,   
   2065. At the point, he will be 88-years-old. His sentence will officially end   
   on Christmas Day, year 2069 when he is 92-years of age.   
      
   https://www.wgnsradio.com/article/69607/tennessee-supreme-court-   
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