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   A man convicted of rape in Rutherford County has asked for an appeal in his   
   case, suggesting that his guilty plea was made unknowingly or involuntarily,   
   based on the ineffective assistance of trial counsel.   
      
   David Sanders was indicted in 2016 for three counts of aggravated rape, three   
   counts of rape, three counts of statutory rape, three counts of aggravated   
   statutory rape, and three counts of sexual battery.   
      
   In 2016, Sanders reportedly went to the Nashville home of his co-defendant and   
   watched him engage in multiple sexual acts to a 15-year old while two other   
   minor children were present. Sanders, who was 58-years-of-age at the time,   
   then engaged in a sexual    
   act without the victims consent, according to court documents filed in the   
   courtroom of Judge David Bragg in Rutherford County.   
      
   One year later, Sanders negotiated a plea agreement to one count of rape that   
   carried a sentence of ten-years’ imprisonment and dismissal of the remaining   
   counts of the indictment. The plea agreement was subject to Sanders testifying   
   truthfully at the    
   trial of his co-defendant -- failure to do so would result in setting aside   
   the plea agreement.   
      
   Shortly after the trial came to a close and Sanders became familiar with his   
   new environment, he filed an appeal with the court of criminal appeals at   
   Nashville. In the appeal, he suggested that he thought his guilty plea came   
   with the sentence of only    
   probation, not prison time.   
      
   Sanders filed the following letter with the courts:   
      
   I thought I was on a [split] sentence to come out on probation. Can you please   
   explain this to me? Cause in the special conditions it states: Defendant is to   
   testify truthfully [at] the [trial] of his co-defendant, failure to do so   
   shall result in the    
   set aside of this plea agreement as to the disposition of this count and the   
   remaining counts of the indictment all of which [are] to be dismissed. Can you   
   explain this to me, [‘]cause I was under the impression that I was coming   
   out on probation.   
      
   A post-conviction hearing was held on February 27, 2020, during which Sanders   
   and trial counsel testified. Sanders again stated he believed his rape   
   conviction would be dismissed after he testified against his co-defendant.   
      
   The end result of the case going before the appeals court did not end in   
   Sanders favor. The courts responded, "the Petitioner is not entitled to   
   relief.”   
      
   Sanders, who previously lived in the Rocky Hill Road area of Lascassas, has   
   had other run-in's with the law for rape. The Tennessee Sex Offender Registry   
   shows that the previous rape conviction for Sanders occurred in 1993.   
      
   Today, Sanders is 63-years-old. His release date has been scheduled December   
   30, 2025... one day before his 68th birthday in year 2025.   
      
   The order was filed and confirmed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on July 13,   
   2021.   
      
   https://www.wgnsradio.com/article/69247/63-year-old-lascassas-ma   
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