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Education:
Mr. Davis received his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1986, a Bachelor of Arts in 1983 from Elizabethtown College, PA and has attended the National Criminal Defense College, Mercer Law School, GA 1991. |
Trial Experience:
Mr. Davis has been representing individuals in court since 1986. He has successfully represented clients in trial and appellate courts throughout the country and regularly tries cases before Tennessee state and federal court juries. Mr. Davis has represented clients in TN, GA, AL, AK, KS, NC, VA, PA, NY, and MA.
Representative cases have included such varied subjects as complicated white collar money laundering cases to innovative homicide investigations using mitochondrial DNA. Mr. Davis has tried more than one-hundred jury trials. He has been lead counsel in four death penalty cases. He has also represented hundreds of clients in court with charges that range from DUI to first degree murder.
Assistant District Attorney (1994-1998), Mr. Davis has also served in the capacities of Special Prosecutor and Special Judge in criminal proceedings in Tennessee (1998-2005).
In civil actions Mr. Davis has successfully represented his clients in mediation and at trial to obtain money damages in automobile and truck accidents, child injury, real estate litigation and workmans compensation cases. |
Professional and Teaching Experience:
Mr. Davis currently teaches Criminal and Constitutional Law at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and previously taught trial practice as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee School of Law in Knoxville.
Mr. Davis is recognized as a Life Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, NACDL. He has published articles on DNA technology and the death penalty.
Mr. Davis has lectured nationally as an instructor with the American Prosecutors Research Institute, Washington DC, APRI. |