The Metro Nashville Police Department has launched a new dashboard that allows members of the public to view data and information about crime and policing, WPLN reports. The data dashboard features graphs and maps of where crime occurs and how it affects different groups. It also offers a breakdown of the department by race and gender. Police Chief John Drake says the goal is to increase transparency and inform the community. “These first-ever MNPD data dashboards enhance the police department’s transparency and present timely information in an easy-to-understand format that can be accessed on a desktop computer, a tablet or a smartphone on the go,” he said in a statement.

A Shelby County judge today barred the release of a video depicting the fatal shooting of Alvin Motley Jr. at a Memphis Kroger, the Daily Memphian reports. Motley was shot and killed by a security guard at a Kroger Fuel Center after an alleged altercation over loud music. General Sessions Judge Louis Montesi issued a temporary restraining order barring the release of the video until a Sept. 7 hearing. Montesi’s order came shortly after Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk announced his office would release the footage on Friday. Funk was named special prosecutor in the case after Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich recused her office upon learning one of her criminal investigators worked for the same security company as the defendant. There are at least three videos of the shooting: two from private citizens and one from Kroger. Defense attorney Leslie Ballin had previously filed a protective order asking the court to block the video from being made public.

The investiture and swearing-in ceremony for incoming Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Page has been postponed until the fall. Page was elected to the position last week by his colleagues on the high court. He was set to be sworn in by Justice Connie Clark at a small ceremony tomorrow, the same day his term as chief justice begins, but will instead take the oath privately. Page is the first chief justice from rural West Tennessee in 27 years. Former Chief Justice Lyle Reid of Brownsville served in the role from 1990 until 1994. Page succeeds Justice Jeff Bivins, who has served in that role since 2016. The Administrative Office of the Courts has more.

A woman being held at Silverdale Jail, a facility owned by Hamilton County and run through a private third party, gave birth to a child at a local hospital shortly before passing away from apparent COVID-19 complications, the Chattanoogan reports. The Chattanooga Police Department says Morghan Jean Elmore was arrested on Aug. 13 and transported to a local hospital on Aug. 21. Her passing is considered an in-custody death and the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office has requested the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division conduct an investigation.

While the overall number of juvenile court cases transferred to adult court in Shelby County and Memphis has decreased, new data shows that virtually all of the juveniles transferred are Black, the Daily Memphian reports. The data, released by the juvenile court, shows that 97.8% of all juvenile transfers in 2019 and 2020 were Black. That trend has continued into 2021, with 22 of 24 transfers being Black. In 2020 and so far in 2021, the overall number of transfers dropped, possibly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but reform advocates say the number is still too high and more should be done to avoid transferring a child to adult court. Only 10 juveniles in Nashville and Davidson County were transferred to adult court last year. Administrators say that low number is a result of taking a restorative justice approach that pairs kids with community services and resources instead of prosecution.      

Retired Anderson County judge Jennings Bryan Meredith died Sunday. He was 81. Jennings, a U.S. Air Force veteran, earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. He returned to Anderson County where he practiced law for 12 years before becoming a judge in the General Sessions court. He served 22 years on the bench until his retirement. Meredith’s family will receive visitors on Thursday from 5 until 7 p.m. EDT at the First Baptist Church in Clinton, 225 N Main Street, Clinton, TN 37716. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to First Baptist Church Christian Service Center.

Three lawyers have recently been reinstated after being suspended for failure to complete required CLE hours. See the full list of those suspended and reinstated in 2021 for 2020 violations. The TBA also has records of all administrative suspensions and reinstatements going back to 2005. See all lists here.

The Tennessee Supreme Court yesterday suspended Knox County lawyer Grace Ingrid Gardiner from the practice of law for three years, with four months of active suspension and the remainder on probation. A hearing panel of the Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) found five areas in which Gardiner failed to comply with rules of the Bankruptcy Court, violating Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1 (competence), 1.3 (diligence), 3.3 (candor toward the tribunal), 5.3 (responsibilities regarding nonlawyer assistants) and 8.4 (misconduct). Gardiner must pay $2,391.03 to the BPR to cover costs of the disciplinary hearing and comply with Supreme Court rules regarding the obligations and responsibilities of suspended attorneys and the procedure for reinstatement.

Whether it’s fictional lawyers in film or real lawyers who represent celebrities, a ton of these characters have committed ethical violations. Join "the CLE Performer" Stuart Teicher as he explores the misdeeds of the real and fake lawyers of Hollywood. "The Bad Lawyers of Hollywood: An Ethics Program" is a webcast on Sept. 30. 

Jim Cheek III, one of the country’s top corporate and securities lawyers and a Bass Berry & Sims mainstay for more than five decades, died Friday. He was 78. Cheek, a Nashville native who earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University after graduating from Duke University, joined Bass in 1970. The firm is collecting condolences and tributes for the Cheek family via tributes@bassberry.com. Details about visitation and services have not yet been finalized. Read more about his career from the Nashville Post.