JURIST
SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that outlawed abortions based on certain reasons, such as a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome or the race or gender of the fetus. Indeed, hundreds of criminal laws have exactly the same causation requirement…Are they all now up for grabs?”.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 31, 2022
The question came through the courts as part of a case trying a Tennessee man convicted of driving after being declared a “motor vehicle habitual offender,” under a law that was later repealed and replaced criminal charges with civil procedures.
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JonathanTurley
APRIL 1, 2023
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee law limiting drag shows on constitutional grounds. Federal district judge Thomas Parker granted an injunction on the ground that the Tennessee law is vague and overly broad. “Drag” is not defined in the law. I think that Judge Parker is right.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont Tuesday voted on Election Day ballot measures to end the practice of enslavement after criminal conviction. ” Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont chose to end the practice. ” Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont chose to end the practice. ” 76.49
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
There is a troubling case in Tennessee this week where Pamela Moses has been given six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote last November. It is an exceptionally severe sentence, particularly due to the mitigating circumstances in the case.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 28, 2021
A very disturbing case of alleged police brutality just got far worse after defense counsel for Jim Jones, 62, alleged in open court that a prosecutor with the District Attorney for Lawrence County, Tennessee told a deputy sheriff to delete pictures of the beaten Jones. Under Tennessee bar rules (and those of other states): RULE 3.4:
The Crime Report
JUNE 11, 2021
Prosecutors sought to impose the mandatory 15-year sentence based on three earlier convictions, one of them in Tennessee for reckless assault. Lower courts rejected his argument, and he was sentenced under the career-criminal law. That conviction, Borden argued, should not count as a strike.
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