TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 17, 2020

Lawyers for Andrew Delke, a Nashville police officer charged with murder, asked the Tennessee Supreme Court late today to consider calling an outside jury for the murder trial, the Tennessean reports. A jury trial is scheduled to begin in March but lawyers said if a change of venue is granted the trial should be delayed. Delke, who is white, was charged with first-degree murder after he shot Daniel Hambrick, who was black, in the back during a 2018 foot chase. The Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week that it would not overturn a lower court's decision denying a venue change.