Saturday, June 2, 2012

TN Court of Criminal Appeals Finds Video Must Be Reviewed by Trial Court

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by Lee Davis State of Tennessee v. Barry D. McCoy The State of Tennessee appealed a lower court’s ruling denying their request to ...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tennessee Supreme Court to revisit "constructive possession" in State v. Robinson

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by Jay Perry It’s not an uncommon situation: late at night a car full of people is pulled over by police.  Inside the car the police f...

On Extraordinary Appeal, the Tennessee Supreme Court Opines on the Grant of New Trials in the First-Degree Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom

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by Stevie Phillips On May 24, the Tennessee Supreme Court entered a Rule10 Order addressing the question of whether Judge Jon Kerry...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Chattanooga National Cemetery-Memorial Day 2012

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By 1870, more than 12,800 interments were complete by Lee Davis Yesterday after bike ridding and enjoying some ice cream in the s...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

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Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Affirms Positive Drug Test Means Incarceration by Lee Davis State of Tennessee v. Terry Mauric...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

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by Lee Davis Judge Kerry Blackwood The  Tennessee  Supreme Court in a rather unusual move has ruled that Judge Baumgartner's terri...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Tennessee’s New Expungement Statute Goes into Effect July 1

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By Stevie Phillips Criminal Procedure - As enacted, this law authorizes persons to petition for expungement of records of conviction for c...

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals says stops based on dirty license plates constitutional

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by Lee Davis State of Tennessee v. Eric A. Martin Eric Martin was stopped by a police officer for violation of a the law requirin...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Says that Post-Conviction Petitions Must Contain Specific Facts, Defendants Can’t Simply Check Boxes

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by Lee Davis MICHAEL DESHAY PEOPLES, JR. v. STATE OF TENNESSEE The Petitioner in this case, Michael Deshay Peoples, Jr. , was in...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Affirms Revocation of Probation for Weapons Possession

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by Lee Davis STATE OF TENNESSEE V. NICHOLAS CLOWER Nicholas Clower pled guilty to two counts of sale and delivery of less than 0.5 ...