February 13, 2001
Volume 7 -- Number 028

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
02 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
00 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. ERNEST B. EADY

Court:TCCA

Attorneys:  

Keith E. Haas, Sevierville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Ernest B.
Eady.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Patricia C. Kussmann,
Assistant Attorney General; Randall E. Nichols, District Attorney
General; and Scott Green, Assistant District Attorney General, for the
appellee, State of Tennessee.                       

Judge: TIPTON

First Paragraph:

The defendant appeals from his conviction for second degree murder,
contesting the sufficiency of the evidence, the timeliness of the
state's disclosure of a potentially exculpatory witness, and the trial
court's failure to declare a mistrial.  We affirm the judgment of the
trial court.

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/eadyeb.wpd





STATE OF TENNESSEE v. PATTY PACE PURKEY

Court:TCCA

Attorneys:   

Edward C. Miller, Dandridge, Tennessee, for the appellant, Patty Pace
Purkey.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, Mark A. Fulks,
Assistant Attorney General, Al Schmutzer, Jr., District Attorney
General, and Michael A. Gallegos, Assistant District Attorney General,
for the appellee, State of Tennessee.                       

Judge: OGLE

First Paragraph:

The appellant, Patty Pace Purkey, pled guilty in the Grainger County
Criminal Court to one count of vehicular assault, a class D felony,
one count of reckless endangerment, a class E felony, three counts of
simple possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor,
and one count of driving on a revoked license, a class B misdemeanor. 
The trial court sentenced the appellant to the following terms of
incarceration:  three years in the Tennessee Department of Correction
for vehicular assault; two years in the Tennessee Department of
Correction for reckless endangerment; eleven months and twenty-nine
days in the county jail for each of the simple possession convictions;
and six months in the county jail for driving on a revoked license. 
The trial court further ordered that all of the appellant's sentences
be served concurrently and assessed a total of $750 in fines.  The
trial court denied the appellant any form of alternative sentencing. 
On appeal, the appellant raises the following issue for our review:
whether the trial court erred in failing to order probation or another
alternative sentence.  Upon review of the record and the parties'
briefs, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/purkeypp.wpd

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 2001 Tennessee Bar Association