Criminal Law Legal Tennessee 
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
JUNE 12, 2021
One of the three violent felonies the government alleged as a predicate to the ACCA charge was for reckless aggravated assault under Tennessee law. He wrote instead that the phrase is “a centuries-old term of art in the criminal law that distinguishes offenses against the person from offenses against property.”
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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:
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 22, 2021
As I noted earlier , if the officer intended to shoot Babbitt, it would not likely meet the standard for a justified shooting under governing cases like Tennessee v. I fail to see the justified basis under controlling legal standards but I may have the bias of a criminal defense attorney. Garner (1985).
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
MAY 16, 2023
Although these justifications are often framed as “common sense,” they ignore the fact that both civil and criminal laws already protect such places. Fradella is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, where he also holds an affiliate appointment as a professor of law.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2021
The sharp contrast in the two decisions raises serious questions over the legal and political issues that rage around such cases. The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements that can influence such decisions.
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