The Defendant, Deondre Raymon McClain, appeals the trial court’s revocation of his effective six-year probationary sentence stemming from his guilty-pleaded convictions for unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance with the intent to sell. On appeal, he argues that the trial court’s findings were insufficient to support its decision to fully revoke his probation and order him to serve the remainder of his sentence in confinement. Following our review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

State Rep. Bo Mitchell, D-Nashville, is again challenging the qualification of his Republican opponent Jennifer Frensley Webb ahead of the November election, the Tennessean reports. A new lawsuit against Metro Nashville and the Davidson County Election Commission alleges that the commission violated state law when it certified Webb’s candidacy. The commission affirmed Webb's qualification to be on the ballot after spending several hours reviewing her petition signatures earlier this month, according to the Nashville Banner. This week, Mitchell’s attorney called that hearing "a farcical display of incompetence, lacking in legitimate procedure and riddled with flaws.”

The Defendant, Valerie Ann Dollar, was convicted by a Johnson County Criminal Court jury of first degree felony murder in perpetration of kidnapping, especially aggravated kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping. See T.C.A. §§ 39-13-202 (2018) (subsequently amended) (first degree murder), 39-13-305 (2018) (especially aggravated kidnapping), 39-12-103 (2018) (conspiracy). The trial court imposed an effective life plus twenty-year sentence. On appeal, the Defendant contends (1) that the evidence is insufficient to support the convictions and (2) that the trial court erred by excluding evidence of the State’s pretrial offer to dismiss the murder charge. We affirm the judgments of the criminal court.

The Defendant, Renardo Dixon, pled guilty in the Shelby County Criminal Court to aggravated assault and kidnapping, both Class C felonies, in exchange for concurrent sentences of eight years at 30% release eligibility, with the service left to the trial court’s determination. At the conclusion of the sentencing hearing, the trial court denied the Defendant’s request for probation and ordered that he serve his sentences in the Tennessee Department of Correction consecutively to his sentence in a prior case in which his probation had been violated. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the trial court erred by denying his request for probation. Based on our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Defendant, Keedrin Coppage, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of first degree premeditated murder and tampering with evidence. The trial court imposed a life sentence for count one, and a consecutive sentence of six years for count two. Defendant raises twelve issues on appeal: (1) sufficiency of the evidence to support his first degree premeditated murder conviction; (2) admission of the Defendant’s prior bad acts against the victim under Tennessee Rule of Evidence 404(b); (3) admission of the victim’s statements under Tennessee Rule of Evidence 804(b)(6); (4) denial of his motion for a continuance of the trial date; (5) denial of his motion to admit recordings and photographs; (6) exclusion of portions of body camera footage; (7) denial of Defendant’s motion for mistrial; (8) exclusion of the victim’s family’s civil law suit; (9) allowing the jury to use transcripts of audio recordings; (10) not allowing defense counsel to question an officer regarding explicit recordings sent to him by Defendant; (11) not allowing defense counsel to question whether Defendant was charged for the prior bad acts admitted under Tennessee Rule of Evidence 404(b); and (12) that he is entitled to relief under the cumulative error doctrine. After a thorough review of the entire record, the briefs, oral arguments of the parties, and the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

This is an appeal by a pro se appellant. Due to the deficiencies in the appellant’s brief on appeal, we conclude that he waived consideration of any issues on appeal and hereby dismiss the appeal.

A mother appeals the termination of her parental rights. Because the mother did not file her notice of appeal within thirty days after entry of the final judgment as required by Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a), we dismiss the appeal.

This is an action to rescind a quitclaim deed conveyed pursuant to a durable general power of attorney. On August 1, 2006, Richard Petersen (“Plaintiff”) appointed his sister, Margaret Georgiades (“Defendant”) as his attorney-in-fact. The power of attorney was recorded on July 8, 2009. In April 2010, Defendant conveyed, via quitclaim deed, one-half of Plaintiff’s undivided interest in his residence to herself for no consideration. Plaintiff contends that he did not discover the transfer until the fall of 2020, at which time he revoked Defendant’s power of attorney. Then, on February 4, 2021, he filed suit against Defendant to rescind the conveyance on the basis that the deed was void ab initio as the power of attorney did not authorize Defendant to make gifts or transfers “without consideration to anyone.” He also contended that the conveyance should be set aside because Defendant’s conduct “constitutes a clear breach of the fiduciary duty” she owed to Plaintiff as his attorney-in-fact. For her part, Defendant contends that the action is barred by the ten-year statute of limitations. She also contends that Plaintiff instructed her to make the conveyance and that he subsequently told others that he had consented to the conveyance. Following discovery, Plaintiff filed a motion for summary judgment on the basis that the deed was void ab initio. The trial court granted the motion, finding that the power of attorney did not grant Defendant “the authority to transfer [Plaintiff’s] property by gift to her or to any third party” and, on this basis, declared the deed “void ab initio and to have no effect whatsoever.” This appeal followed. As provided by Tennessee Code Annotated § 34-6- 110(a), because the power of attorney expressly authorized Defendant “[t]o exercise or perform any act, power, duty, right or obligation whatsoever that I now have,” Defendant had “the power and authority to make gifts, in any amount, of any of the principal’s property, to any individuals, . . . in accordance with the principal’s personal history of making or joining in the making of lifetime gifts.” See Tenn. Code Ann. § 34-6-110(a). Accordingly, we vacate the trial court’s grant of summary judgment. Because the trial court did not rule on other issues, including, inter alia, whether Plaintiff’s claim is time barred, whether Plaintiff approved of the conveyance, whether the gift was in accordance with Plaintiff’s history of making lifetime gifts, and/or whether the conveyance constitutes a breach of Defendant’s fiduciary duty to Plaintiff, we remand this case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools will not allow teachers to carry weapons on school property, the Daily Memphian reports. The district delivered the news in a joint public-service announcement with the Memphis Police Department and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. School Superintendent Marie Feagins, interim Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner say that only trained security officers should oversee school safety. The announcement comes after the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law allowing districts to arm educators. Several suburban school districts in the county, including Arlington, Lakeland and Millington, already have announced they would not allow staff to carry guns on campus.

As parallel criminal and civil cases move forward against the Johnson City Police Department over its interactions with alleged serial rapist Sean Williams, new accusations have emerged that a co- conspirator laundered money to make extortion payments to police. The payments, according to women suing, came from Williams’ business partner, who made weekly payments of $2,000 using a complicated scheme to disguise the source of the funds. Police are accused of protecting the business partner and Williams in exchange for the payments. The new claims come as part of a suit filed last year alleging that officers failed to investigate sexual assault complaints against Williams. Tennessee Lookout has more.