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State of Tennessee v. Daireus Ice
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with kidnnapping and rape of a 4-year-old girl. The victim, now 12-year-old, testified, recounting the assault and its enduring impact. Her mother and brother also provided testimony, while family members remained present throughout the proceedings, steadfast in their pursuit of justice. “Although...
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( 09-19-2025 - TN)

Moms for Liberty - Wilson County, Tennessee, et al. Wilson Coounty Schools, et al.
Nashville, Tennessee Civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiffs First Amendment violation. The Wilson County Board of Education is charged with administering public schools in Wilson County, Tennessee. In line with its Policy Manual, the Board holds monthly school board meetings. Tennessee law dictates that the Board’s Chair preside over all school board meetings, ...
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( 09-15-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Spencer Allen Bradley
Greeneville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Methamphetamine And Cocaine Conspiracy, And Money Laundering Last Defendant Of Johnson City Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To 262 Months For Methamphetamine And Cocaine Conspiracy, And Money Launder...
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( 09-15-2025 - TN)

State of Tennessee v. Fisher Wise
Chattanooga, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer will be representing the defendant charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and assault. Fisher Wise approached the brother-in-law and male homeowner, attempting to fight them....
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( 09-12-2025 - TN)

Matthew Howell and Alisha Brown v. Justin McCormick, et al.
Nashville, Tennessee personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Fourth Amendment violation theory. This case about feuding housemates raises a host of Fourth Amendment questions. A woman called 911 from outside her residence claiming that her housemate, Matthew Howell, had pointed a gun at her and refused to give her access to (what she said was) her car. In respons...
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( 08-25-2025 - TN)

Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, et al.
Nashville, Tennessee civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a declaratory judgment that Tennessee's Auctioneering license law was unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment. In 1967, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a state law to define and regulate the auctioneering profession. See 1967 Tenn. Pub. Acts ch. 335. Under this law, the Tennessee...
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( 08-16-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Jaquan L. Bridges
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a machinegun in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o). Bridges was driving on a highway in Memphis, Tennessee, when he almost struck a police vehicle. As police tried to stop him, he slowed his car, rolled down the window, and fired several gunshots—one bullet hit the police car and narrowly...
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( 08-15-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain. "Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador only to be brought back to the U.S. to face smuggling charges, asked a federal judge in Nashville on Tuesday to dismiss his indictment, calling it a "vindictiv...
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( 08-01-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Yosiah Awomolo, Alexander Legeza, Kelly White
Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Road Rage Three Ohio Residents Arrested For Road Rage Shooting In Great Smoky Mountain National Park ...
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( 08-01-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Scales
Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of heroin, marijuana, and other evidence related to drug trafficking. "It is a basic principle of the Fourth Amendment that for a search warrant to issue there must be probable cause.” United States v. Laughton, 409 F.3d 744, 747 (6th Cir. 2005). “An issuing judge may find proba...
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( 07-25-2025 - TN)

Rachel Welty and Aftry Behn v. Bryant C. Dunaway, et al.
Nashville, Tennessee civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking injunctive relief. In May 2024, Tennessee enacted the Underage Abortion Trafficking Act. 2024 Tenn. Pub. Acts, ch. 1032 (codified at Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-15-201). The Act bans adults from “intentionally recruit[ing], harbor[ing], or transport[ing] a pregnant unemancipated minor” within Tennessee “for the pu...
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( 07-25-2025 - TN)

Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank
Knoxville, Tennessee employment benefits law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an ERISA claim. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) imposes many fiduciary duties on those who manage the retirement plans that employers set up for their employees. ERISA generally allows employees who participate in these plans to pursue breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims ag...
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( 07-25-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Monika D. Schorer, Teresa D. Schorer, Eric S. Smith
Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Two Jonesborough Women And A Bristol, Virginia Man Sentenced For VA Bribery Scheme Two Jonesborough Women And A Bristol, Virginia Man Sentenced For VA Bribery Scheme ...
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( 07-23-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. James Calvin Hennings
Jackson, TN criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Final Member Sentenced in Tennessee Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring ...
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( 07-22-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Brett Hankison
Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with deprivation of rights under color of law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242. Nashville police officer Hankison was charged with using excessive force in shooting Breona Taylor during a botched drug raid. Taylor, 26, was inside her apartment when she was fatally shot by plainclothes officers around 12:4...
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( 07-17-2025 - TN)

State of Tennessee v. Leopold Mpawinayo
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape of a child. Leopold Mpawinayo was accused of picked up the victim, who was a stranger to him and who was 12-years-old, and raped her. Although the victim reported the crime immediately, the DNA didn’t hit CODIS (the national DNA crime database) until five years later. Mpawinayo was then connecte...
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( 07-15-2025 - TN)

Tammy Livingston v. Jay Livingston Music, Inc.
Nashville, Tennessee civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a music royalty dispute. In all its many forms, music is a powerful influence. One of music’s great gifts is its knack for soothing the mind. Think of the way listening to your favorite song takes you to a place where, at least temporarily, life’s frustrations are quickly set aside. Music’s perhaps most end...
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( 07-15-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Alex Robinson
Greeneville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances (drugs)....
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( 07-03-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Deangelus Thomas
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with on two counts of being a felon in possession under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) for his role in a shooting. Thomas maintained that he could not be sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Because he had never been indicted for it, and the jury had not found the essenti...
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( 07-03-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Edward Kelley
Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to murder federa employees and threatening federal agents. 18 U.S.C. § 1117 - Conspiracy to Murder Employees of the United States 18 U.S.C. § 373 - Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) - Influencing Federal Official by Threat ...
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( 07-03-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Shantel Virginia
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and swindles in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349 and 18 U.S.C. 1341....
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( 07-03-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Mary Payne
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. ...
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( 07-02-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Edward Kelley
Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiring To Murder Federal, State, And Local Law Enforcement Officers And Employees Tennessee Man Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Conspiring To Murder Federal, State, And Local Law Enforcement Office...
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( 07-02-2025 - TN)

United States of America v. Darryl Deshaun Humphrey
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime Nashville Felon on Bond for Drug and Firearms...
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( 07-02-2025 - TN)

Joy Francine Mitchell Byrd v. Samuel Byrd, Jr.
Knoxville, Tennessee family law lawyer represented the Defendant in a divorce action. * * * APPELLATE PROCEDURE. FINAL JUDGMENT REQUIREMENT. The case addresses whether the appellant could pursue an appeal in the absence of a final judgment from the trial court, which is a prerequisite for an appeal as of right according to court rules. APPELLATE PROCEDURE. JURISDICTION....
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( 07-01-2025 - TN)

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