Hamilton County Herald article about Lee Davis

Hamilton County Herald features article about Lee Davis.

by David Laprad

No matter which route a prospective client takes to see criminal defense attorney Lee Davis, he or she is going to have to climb the steep hill to the East 5th Street house where Davis practices law. However, if Davis takes the person’s case, it will have been worth the hike.

Not only will the client benefit from Davis’ 25 years of experience as a litigator, but he also will have an attorney who will walk with him every step of the even steeper climb to the end of his legal issues. Just ask Twanna Blair. When she came to see Davis in 1999, she was a victim of a home robbery and a witness to the murder of three other people. Before the end of the case 10 years later, Blair’s problems escalated as Bradley County prosecutors charged her with perjury, and then murder, and then pursued the death penalty.

“When we first met her, we didn’t know where the case would go. We just knew she was in trouble. It was unlikely she could afford our office, so we volunteered to sort things out for her. And then she embarked on a legal nightmare,” Davis says. At the top of the precipitous hill Davis and Blair climbed, the judge directed the verdict out and found Blair not guilty of every charge. “The judge said the state didn’t present sufficient evidence to convict her,” Davis says.

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