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Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 13, 2015

The defendant, Ashley Altman, appeals her Giles County Circuit Court jury convictions of manufacturing marijuana, possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, and possession of drug paraphernalia, claiming that the trial court erred by refusing to suppress evidence obtained during a search of her residence and that the evidence was insufficient to support her conviction of possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. We affirm the convictions and sentences but remand for correction of clerical errors in one of the judgments.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 13, 2015

This appeal results from the trial court?s order reversing the City of Memphis Civil Service Commission?s decision to terminate the employment of one of its employees. We vacate the judgment of the trial court and remand for further proceedings.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 13, 2015

In this breach of contract action, the plaintiff appeals the trial court?s grant of summary judgment to the defendants on res judicata grounds. The plaintiff in his complaint alleged that the defendant school district and defendant school superintendent breached a contract with him for continuing employment as a certified public school teacher.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 13, 2015

The appeal in this divorce litigation presents issues regarding proper valuation of the parties? business, proper division of marital assets, alimony, child support, attorney?s fees, and court costs. The parties were married for seventeen years, with three children being born of the marriage. The husband is a dentist, who started his own practice during the parties? marriage. Much of the testimony at trial focused upon the proper value to be assigned to this marital asset. The trial court adopted the value assigned by the wife?s expert of $430,376.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 13, 2015

This is a termination of parental rights case in which the Tennessee Department of Children?s Services filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of the mother to her two minor children and of the father to his minor child that he shared with the mother.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 9, 2015

The Defendant, Alfred Calvin Whitehead, was convicted by a Davidson County Criminal Court jury of possession of 0.5 gram or more of cocaine with the intent to deliver in a Drug- Free School Zone, a Class A felony. See T.C.A. §§ 39-17-417(a)(4) (2010) (amended 2012, 2014) (possession of cocaine with intent to sell), 39-17-417(c)(1) (classifying the offense as a Class B felony), 39-17-432(b)(1) (2014) (requiring that offenses committed in a Drug Free School Zone be sentenced one classification higher and affecting the minimum required service and release eligibility of the sentence).

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 9, 2015

The Petitioner, Jamar Siler, appeals the Knox County Criminal Court’s denial of his petition for post-conviction relief from his conviction for second degree murder, for which he is serving a thirty-year sentence. He contends that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because it was induced by the ineffective assistance of his counsel in the conviction proceedings. We affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 9, 2015

The pro se petitioner, Frank Shackleton, appeals the Davidson County Circuit Court’s summary dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his conviction and sentence are illegal and void because he pled guilty to an offense with a different date from the offense date in the indictment. Because the petitioner has failed to state a cognizable claim for habeas corpus relief, we affirm the summary dismissal of the petition.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 9, 2015

The defendant, Deandre D. Rucker, was convicted of first degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion to sever, the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction, and the court erred in denying a motion for a mistrial or a cautionary instruction because of prosecutorial misconduct during the State?s closing argument. Following our review, we conclude that the defendant?s first two assignments of error are without merit.


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