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This appeal arises from a bifurcated compensation hearing in which the trial court was asked to address the compensability of the employee's alleged lumbar spine injury, which occurred while she was undergoing a pre-employment physical at the invitation of the company assuming the contract to operate the facility where she worked.

Former judge John Gasaway was barred from representing his wife, Carrie Gasaway, who is charged with three counts of theft in Montgomery County. Carrie Gasaway, a former Clarksville attorney, was disbarred by the Tennessee Supreme Court in October and convicted of extortion in May. The theft charges stem from a case in which Gasaway is accused of depositing money from a client’s settlement into her personal bank account, shared with her husband. Read more from The Tennessean.

A Davidson County jury convicted the Defendant, Timothy Damon Carter, of theft of property valued over $60,000 and of being a felon in possession of a handgun. The trial court sentenced the Defendant as a career offender to a total effective sentence of thirty years in confinement.

A Rutherford County Circuit Court Jury convicted the appellant, Matthew Whitehair, of two counts of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony; one count each of incest, statutory rape by an authority figure, and sexual battery by an authority figure, Class C felonies; five counts of attempted incest, a Class D felony; two counts of sexual battery, a Class E felony; and one count of assault, a Class A misdemeanor. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced him to an effective eight-year sentence to be served at 100% followed by seven years on supervised probation.

The petitioner currently is serving an effective seventy-year sentence following his 2013 guilty pleas to fifty counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, ten counts of rape of a child, and seventeen counts of aggravated rape of a child. Following an unsuccessful petition for post-conviction relief based upon the alleged ineffectiveness of trial counsel, Billy Jack Cook v. State, No. M2014-00616-CCA-R3-PC, 2015 WL 2445868, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. May 22, 2015), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Aug.

The Defendant, Anthony Blake Wisdom, was convicted by a Davidson County Criminal Court jury of aggravated robbery, a Class B felony. See T.C.A. § 39-13-402(a)(1) (2014). The Defendant was sentenced as a Range II, multiple offender to fourteen years. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The Defendant, Marvin E. Potter, Jr., was convicted by a Washington County Criminal Court jury of two counts of premeditated first degree murder, for which he is serving consecutive life sentences. On appeal, he contends that (1) the evidence is insufficient to support the convictions, (2) the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence as statements of co-conspirators, (3) the trial court erred in denying the Defendant?s motion for a mistrial due to an absent material witness, and (4) the State?s use of visual aids during closing argument constituted prosecutorial misconduct.

Defendant, Garrick Graham, and his Co-Defendant, Bashan Murchison, were convicted of numerous drug offenses by a Sullivan County Jury.