TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 21, 2025

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Middle Tennessee have agreed that Abrego Garcia can be released from custody tomorrow, the Nashville Banner reports. A flurry of filings on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week asked District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw to release him on Friday. Crenshaw had issued a stay of his release order until Friday due to uncertainty about whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would attempt to detain and deport him again. But after a federal judge in Maryland barred ICE from using a detainer warrant to grab him upon release, both sides agreed to the release. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys also have asked Crenshaw to order ICE to allow him to have access to legal counsel in the event he is detained. The defendant is facing human smuggling charges in Nashville stemming from a 2022 traffic stop.