262, 92 S.Ct. 495, 30 L.Ed.2d 427 (1971) (citations omitted) (discussing pleas under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11); see State v. Layman, 214 S.W.3d 442, 452 (Tenn. 2007) (“[A] trial court has discretion under Rule 11 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure to reject a plea agreement ....”); State v. Todd, 654 S.W.2d 379, 382 (Tenn. 1983) (“The trial judge may accept or reject the plea agreement in the exercise of his discretion.”) (discussing Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 11). A trial court’s refusal to accept a guilty plea will be reversed on appeal only if the trial court has abused its discretion. Santobello, 404 U.S. at 262, 92 S.Ct. 495 (“A court may reject a plea in exercise of sound judicial discretion.”); State v. Hines, 919 S.W.2d 573, 578 (Tenn. 1995) (<HOLDING>). “An abuse of discretion occurs when [a] trial
holding that trial court in lowspeed impact case acted within its discretion in admitting photographic evidence without expert testimony holding trial court acted within its discretion in excluding expert testimony holding that defendants may agree to departure from sentencing guidelines in plea bargain holding that the defendant was entitled to have his plea accepted absent a sound reason for rejecting the plea holding that trial court acted within its authority in rejecting a plea bargain in a capital case