STATE OF TENNESSEE v. EMOE ZAKIAYA MOSI BAKAR The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has awarded child rape suspect Emoe Zakiaya Mosi Bakari a third trial, ruling that his conviction of attempted rape of a child must be overturned because of various prejudicial errors ...
Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals: DUI Dismissed After Lost Video of Traffic Stop
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 ...
Supreme Court Holds Officers Immune from Civil Suit on Invalid Search
MESSERSCHMIDT ET AL. v. MILLENDER, EXECUTOR OF ESTATE OF MILLENDER, DECEASED, ET AL. In an important and sure to be controversial decision yesterday, ...
Notorious "Daycare Shooting" Case Goes to Trial in DeKalb County, Georgia
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 ...
The Supreme Court: Inmate not in custody for Miranda purposes
In 1966, the Supreme Court in the case of Miranda v. Arizona attempted to create explicit warnings that would remind suspects of their constitutional ...
Tennessee Court of Appeals Reduces First Degree Murder Conviction
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 ...
Governor Haslam Seeks to Stiffen Domestic Violence Penalties in Tennessee
We informed you in an earlier post about Governor Haslam's new public safety initiative. We briefly mentioned the provisions in the legislation about ...
Lawyers convicted of scamming millions from fen-phen suit get unsympathetic hearing at 6th Circuit
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 ...