October 26, 2000 Volume 6 -- Number 176 What follows is the case style or name, first paragraph, author's name, and the names of attorneys for the parties of each opinion released eletronically today to TBALink. This Issue (IN THIS ORDER):   00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court 00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court Workers' Compensation Panel 00 New Document(s) or Proposed Rule(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court 00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Appeals 01 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals 02 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Attorney General (PDF format) 00 New Judicial Ethics Opinion(s) 00 New Formal Ethics Opinion(s) from the Board of Professional Responsibility   There are three ways for TBALink members to get the full-text versions of these opinions from the Web: Do a key word search in the Search Link area of TBALink. This option will allow you to view and save a plain-text version of the opinion. Browse the Opinion List area of TBALink. This option will allow you to download the original version of the opinion. Click the URL at end of each Opinion paragraph below. This option will allow you to download the original document. Lucian T. Pera Editor-in-Chief, TBALink STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LISA ANN BARGO Court:TCCA Attorneys: Richard A. Tate, Assistant Public Defender, Blountville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Lisa Ann Bargo. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, R. Stephen Jobe, Assistant Attorney General, H. Greeley Wells, Jr., District Attorney General, Teresa Murray Smith, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: WITT First Paragraph: Defendant Lisa Ann Bargo was convicted by a jury of one count of forgery, one count of attempt to commit theft over $10,000, and one count of criminal impersonation. The trial court subsequently set aside the jury verdicts on the attempt to commit theft and the criminal impersonation charges and sentenced the defendant on her forgery conviction to ten years as a Range II multiple offender to be served in the Department of Correction. In this appeal, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the length of the sentence. We affirm the defendant's conviction and sentence. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/bargola.wpd 1998 Base Salary of Lake County General Sessions Judge Date: October 23, 2000 Opinion Number: 00-165 http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/OP165.pdf Secondary employment of law enforcement officers by private security company Date: October 24, 2000 Opinion Number: 00-166 http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/OP166.pdf PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL! Feel free to forward this Opinion Flash on to anyone you know of with an e-mail address. GET A FULL-TEXT COPY OF AN OPINION! See the intrsuctions at the beginning of this edition of Opinion Flash. JOIN TBALink! While Opinion Flash is a free service of the Tennessee Bar Association, you must be a subscriber to TBALink, the premier Web site for Tennessee attorneys, in order to access the full-text of the opinions or enjoy many other features of TBALink. TBA members may join TBALink for just $50 per year. To join, go to: http://www.tba.org/join.html/ SUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH! Would you like to receive the TBALink Opinion Flash free each day by e-mail? Anyone, whether a TBA member or not, is welcome to subscribe ... it's free! For the Plain Text Version: 1) Send an e-mail message to: Opinion-Flash@tba.org 2) In the SUBJECT of the message type: SUBSCRIBE 3) Leave the body of the message blank For the HTML Text Version: 1) Send an e-mail message to: Opinion-Flash@tba.org 2) In the SUBJECT of the message type: SUBSCRIBE HTML 3) Leave the body of the message blank UNSUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH? ... SURELY NOT! To STOP receiving TBALink Opinion-Flash: 1) Send an e-mail message to: Opinion-Flash@tba.org 2) In the SUBJECT of the message type: UNSUBSCRIBE 3) Leave the body of the message blank © Copyright 2000 Tennessee Bar Association