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ICE Picks Up Man Facing Vehicular Homicide Charges

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 1, 2019
U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have picked up a man who faces charges of criminally negligent homicide in a Dec. 29 head-on crash that killed a 22-year-old, Knoxnews reports. Eduardo Franco-Cambrany will remain in detention in Georgia for the time being. Franco-Cambrany had no criminal history — and no driver's license or insurance — and the crash had none of the usual elements of a vehicular homicide prosecution, such as drugs, alcohol or speeding.

House Rep. Challenges Ban on Livestreaming

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 1, 2019
A Democratic state representative says he plans to continue personally livestreaming committee meetings, despite a ban on the practice announced this week, The Tennessean reports. Standing on the House floor yesterday, Rep. G.A. Hardaway asked Speaker Glen Casada where in the rules adopted by the House a ban on livestreaming was referenced. "If they can't show me that, it's not a rule, and thus it does not apply to any member of this House," Hardaway said.

Hamilton County Judge Denies New Trial for Man Convicted of Vehicular Homicide

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 1, 2019
Criminal Court Judge Don Poole yesterday denied a new trial for a truck driver convicted in the death of six people at the Ooltewah exit of I-75, The Chattanoogan reports. Benjamin Brewer previously was sentenced to serve 55 years in state prison. Poole gave him 11 years on each of six vehicular homicide cases and ran five of the cases consecutively.

Become a Persuasive Legal Writer by Mastering this Skill

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
Distilling legal documents to their most basic elements is the key to creating effective persuasive legal writing. The problem is ... it's not so easy to achieve. Join attorney Stuart Teicher as he teaches how to make legal writings clear, concise and direct. Get down and dirty with some technicalities of sentence structure, get the lowdown on Stuart's "shortwriting" method for reducing long sentences, and get the skinny on "the only punctuation you'll ever need to know." Earn ethics requirements for the year at the same time with three hours of dual CLE.

Profile: The Rise of Nashville's New Chief Public Defender

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
The Nashville Scene has published an in-depth cover story on Martesha Johnson, the recently elected Chief Public Defender in Nashville. After working in the office as an attorney for 10 years, Johnson is the first African-American to hold the job and only the second woman to do so. She says a focus of her tenure will be wealth-based detention, and how disparities in the justice system unfairly targeted the poorest defendants.

Memphis Legislator Proposes Marijuana Decriminalization

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
Possessing less than one ounce of marijuana would be decriminalized in Tennessee under a new bill proposed by state Sen. Sara Kyle, D-Memphis, The Commercial Appeal reports. The bill would be another try at decriminalizing marijuana in Tennessee after Memphis and Nashville city councils passed ordinances in 2016 giving police the ability to give out lighter penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Former Gov. Bill Haslam in 2017 signed a bill into law that repealed the Memphis and Nashville local laws giving police more latitude with small marijuana possession citations.

Nashville Police, Federal Agents Team Up to Track Illegal Guns

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
A new team announced today will pair Nashville police with federal agents to focus exclusively on tracking illegal guns, The Tennessean reports. The Crime Gun Unit, seven police officers working with two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will analyze shell casings collected at crime scenes across the city to trace specific guns that are used more than once, working backward to find the guns and the people who use them illegally. 

Hamilton County Prosecutors Ask Defense Attorneys to Sign Confidentiality Agreements

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
Death threats and a handful of evidence leaks in a 55-person gang racketeering conspiracy case have Hamilton County prosecutors asking defense attorneys and their clients to sign confidentiality agreements, The Times Free Press reports. The agreements must be reached in order for the defense to get certain pieces of sealed evidence, and if defense attorneys want to leave documents with clients for them to review, they must first redact specific information.

Poll: Faith in U.S. Supreme Court Reaches Decade Low

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court has been the most trusted branch of government among voters for more than a decade, but a new poll shows faith in the court is now near its lowest, Fox News reports. When asked which of the three branches of government they trust the most, 35 percent of voters choose the U.S. Supreme Court, down from 45 percent in 2017. The poll found the court's most well-liked member to be Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Suit Say Gatlinburg Park Rangers Guilty of ‘Reckless Neglect’ in Wildfire

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2019
In a motion filed this week in U.S. District Court, lawyers for Michael Reed, a man who lost his family during the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires, accused the Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers of "reckless neglect” and said they “failed to comply with one mandated policy after another.” Knoxnews reports that lawyers working on behalf of the park want the lawsuit thrown out, saying fire crews need the freedom to act without fear of being sued or second-guessed later.
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