Blog posts in February, 2012

In State v. Angela Merriman, the State appealed a trial court's dismissal of a DUI and two other counts against Angela Merriman. Merriman was charged ...

MESSERSCHMIDT ET AL. v. MILLENDER, EXECUTOR OF ESTATE OF MILLENDER, DECEASED, ET AL. In an important and sure to be controversial decision yesterday, ...

As I continue to update you on the Day-care Shooting here in Atlanta, I'm finding that the case keeps getting more interesting. The trial has been ...

State of Tennessee v. Ashlee N. Appleton The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals decided the case of Ashlee Appleton last week. A jury convicted ...

If there was ever a real-life case that was made for Law and Order, this would be it. In November 2010, a bearded man in a hoodie fired several shots ...

In 1966, the Supreme Court in the case of Miranda v. Arizona attempted to create explicit warnings that would remind suspects of their constitutional ...

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DAVID HOOPER CLIMER, JR Court of Appeals, Jackson, TN T he Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals recently reduced the first-degree ...

We informed you in an earlier post about Governor Haslam's new public safety initiative. We briefly mentioned the provisions in the legislation about ...

Judge Ronnie Lee Gilman of the 6 th Circuit Court of Appeals told two attorneys that while their trial judge may have made an error, their scamming of ...