The Defendant, Ambreia Washington, was convicted by a Madison County Circuit Court jury of unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, a Class B felony; resisting arrest, a Class B misdemeanor; and driving with a canceled, suspended or revoked license (second offense), a Class A misdemeanor, for which he received an effective fifteen-year sentence. See T.C.A. §§ 39-17-1307 (2018) (subsequently amended) (unlawful possession of weapon), 39-16-602 (2018) (resisting arrest), 55-50-504 (2020) (canceled, suspended or revoked license). On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress, failing to dismiss the indictment due to missing evidence, admitting certain photographs into evidence at trial, and denying a motion for a mistrial as a result of prosecutorial misconduct. The Defendant also contends that the cumulative nature of the errors warrant relief. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.

The Petitioner, Ray L. Morehead, appeals the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief, arguing that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel and that his guilty pleas were unknowing, unintelligent, and involuntary. Based on our review, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court denying the petition.

Defendant, Willie Locust, was convicted after a bench trial in Count 1 of possession of more than 0.5 grams of cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver, a Class B felony; in Count 2 of possession of more than 0.5 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to sell or deliver, a Class B felony; in Count 3 of simple possession of Xanax, a Class A misdemeanor; in Count 8 of unlawful possession of brass knuckles, a Class A misdemeanor; in Count 9 of possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, a Class D felony; and in Count 10 of possession of a firearm by a convicted violent felon, a Class B felony. For these convictions, Defendant was sentenced to an effective twenty-eight years in confinement. On appeal, Defendant argues that (1) the trial court erred by denying his pretrial motions to suppress the evidence obtained from a search of his hotel room; (2) the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions; and (3) the trial court erred by ordering partial consecutive service of his sentences. After a thorough review of the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court. However, because the trial court erroneously merged Counts 9 and 10, we order the trial court to reinstate the judgment in Count 9 and to impose a sentence on that count. We also remand for correction of a clerical error in the judgment in Count 3 to show the conviction offense as Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-17-418 rather than section 39-17-417.

The Appellant, Giorgio Jennings, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of six counts of aggravated rape, five counts of aggravated robbery, three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of facilitation of aggravated assault, three counts of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. The trial court sentenced the Appellant to an effective sentence of one hundred and thirty-two years in confinement. In this appeal, he challenges: (1) the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions; and (2) the trial court’s imposition of partial consecutive sentences. After review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

The petitioner, Demarcus Keyon Cole, appeals the dismissal of his petition for writ of error coram nobis, which petition challenged his 2013 Madison County Circuit Court jury convictions for felony murder and especially aggravated robbery, arguing that he is entitled to a new trial due to newly discovered evidence. Discerning no error, we affirm.

New York's law firms have often been bellwethers for the U.S. legal industry, setting expectations in areas such as salaries and sometimes bearing the brunt of downturns. Reuters reports on several year-end trends including the rise in law firm mergers (41 in 2023), the move away from single-tier partnerships and the closing of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, founded in 1876.

This is an appeal from a final order entered on March 17, 2023. The notice of appeal was not filed with the Appellate Court Clerk until June 5, 2023, more than thirty days from the date of entry of the order from which the appellant is seeking to appeal. Because the notice of appeal was not timely filed, we have no jurisdiction to consider this appeal.

Civil rights activist King Madison Hollands, a leader in the 1960s Nashville Student Movement to racially integrate the region, died Dec. 20, reports the Tennessee Lookout. Hollands was 82. Hollands was among the first 14 Black students to attend Father Ryan High School in 1954 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. Hollands' later campaigned for improvements to the Edgehill neighborhood where he grew up and worked to preserve African American history in Nashville. Memorial service information has not yet been announced.

A new court filing in one of two federal lawsuits against accused Tennessee rapist and escaped inmate Sean Williams claims officers with the Johnson City Police Department took hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from Williams while refusing to take meaningful steps to "stop his sexually predatory behavior," reports News Channel 9. The lawsuit also claims officers engaged in a pattern of discriminatory conduct toward women who reported the alleged crimes. Williams is facing multiple state and federal charges related to alleged drug trafficking and sex crimes against woman and children.

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