Ladarrin Ceazer’s 25-year sentence stands despite court’s admission that trial judge erred in applying several enhancement factors.

A Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the 25-year prison sentence for Ladarrin Ceazer, who was convicted of second-degree murder in Shelby County. The court’s decision, delivered on Thursday, upholds the maximum within-range sentence despite acknowledging that the trial court improperly applied three of the five enhancement factors it cited.

The case stems from the fatal shooting of Ceazer’s ex-girlfriend, Kiarra Cooper, on September 12, 2022. According to testimony from Cooper’s mother, Ms. Moreno, Ceazer came to the family’s apartment. Cooper, who had recently been hospitalized, confronted Ceazer.

Ms. Moreno attempted to intervene, but Ceazer

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