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Tennessee man convicted of driving after being declared a “motor vehicle habitual offender,” under a law that was later repealed and replaced criminal charges with civil procedures.
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
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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.
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.
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.”
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
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S.
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