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Stanton pleads guilty to reckless homicide charge
Sentenced to two years in prison, eight on probation
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Rob Nunley photo Christopher Kaylon Stanton, accompanied by Public Defender John Partin, reached a plea agreement in circuit court Wednesday, and will serve two years in Tennessee Department of Corrections custody for reckless homicide in the 2023 death of Dakota Whipple.
Sentencing was handed out in a local homicide case Wednesday morning, 11 months to the day after an altercation between two men resulted in the death of one and arrest of the other.