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June 17, 2003
Circuit Court Judge Don Ash of Murfreesboro has assumed office as president of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, which includes all of the state’s 178 trial and appellate court judges. He succeeded Chancellor Steven Stafford of Dyersburg, whose term ended Friday during the annual Judicial…
September 8, 2003
Lawyers paid by the state torepresent indigent criminal defendants will have to get prior approval by the trial judge and administrative director of the courts before hiring investigators or experts, such as psychiatrists, under an amended rule adopted Monday by the Tennessee Supreme Court.The…
July 15, 2003
Applications will be accepted through Sept. 2 from attorneys wanting to succeed Tennessee Appellate Court Clerk Cecil Crowson, who has announced he will retire effective Jan. 1, 2004, after a decade in the position and 23 years of service with the judicial system."His dedication to the judicial…
August 29, 2003
High school students from Rutherford, Cannon and Bedford counties will hear three actual Supreme Court cases, including a death penalty appeal, as participants in a program designed to educate young Tennesseans about the judicial branch of government.The 600 students and their teachers from 12…
September 2, 2003
The Tennessee Supreme Court will convene at 1 p.m. Wednesday to hear cases for the first time in the newly renovated historic Post Office Building in Knoxville.Justices will hear four cases Wednesday and will reconvene at 9 a.m. Thursday to hear oral arguments in four additional appeals. Chief…
September 8, 2003
A rule detailing how attorneys and experts, such as psychiatrists and investigators, are paid by the state in cases involving indigent criminal defendants would be tightened under a proposal filed Monday by the Tennessee Supreme Court. The court’s proposal also sets out payment guidelines for…
October 23, 2003
Mike Catalano, associate solicitor general in the Office of the State Attorney General, has been appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court as Appellate Court Clerk effective Jan. 1.Catalano, 49, has been with the Office of Attorney General since 1980. He will succeed Cecil Crowson, who is retiring…
November 21, 2003
Chancellor Howell N. Peoples of Ooltewah has been appointed to the commission responsible for evaluating state appellate court judges, including members of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and recommending to voters whether they should be retained in office or removed.Peoples, who serves the 11th…
November 21, 2003
Criminal Court Judge J.C. McLin of Memphis has been appointed to the commission responsible for evaluating state appellate court judges, including members of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and recommending to voters whether they should be retained in office or removed.McLin, of the 30th Judicial…
November 21, 2003
Chancellor Carol L. McCoy of Nashville has been appointed to the commission responsible for evaluating state appellate court judges, including members of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and recommending to voters whether they should be retained in office or removed.McCoy, of the 20th Judicial District…
November 21, 2003
Henrietta Grant of Knoxville has been appointed to the commission responsible for evaluating state appellate judges, including members of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and recommending to voters whether they should retain their judicial offices or be removed.Grant, manager of community relations at…
November 21, 2003
Attorney John A. Day of Nashville has been appointed to the commission responsible for evaluating state appellate judges, including members of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and recommending to voters whether they should be retained in judicial office or removed.Day, appointed by Lt. Gov. John Wilder…
November 21, 2003
Chancellor Telford E. Forgety, Jr., of New Market has been appointed to the commission responsible for evaluating state appellate judges, including members of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and recommending to voters whether they should be retained in office or removed.Forgety, who serves the 4th and…
November 25, 2003
Parents with custody and visitation legal issues, but without resources to hire attorneys, will be among self-represented court users benefiting from nine grants awarded statewide through the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC).As part of a move to improve access to justice for pro se – or…
November 26, 2003
Judges, law enforcement officials, medical professionals and advocates for children and crime victims are among more than 500 Tennesseans registered to hear Gov. Phil Bredesen, First Lady Andrea Conte, Reps. Lincoln Davis and Zach Wamp and more than 50 speakers and panelists Dec. 1-3 at the state's…
November 26, 2003
The names of 213 Tennessee appellate court judges who served since 1796 when the state was founded are etched in gold on donated imported black marble plaques to be unveiled at a 2 p.m. public ceremony Dec. 12 at the Supreme Court Building in Nashville.The Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society…
January 5, 2004
The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld four convictions and death sentences jurors imposed on a Bedford County father who walked into the Shelbyville Police Department and confessed he had shot his children to death.Daryl Keith Holton was convicted in 1999 of four counts of first degree…
January 9, 2004
Governor Phil Bredesen extended the temporary reprieve in the execution of Philip Workman today. The decision to grant this extension was made after consultation with Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers.The reprieve, originally set to expire on January 15, has been extended for three months as…
January 21, 2004
The Tennessee Supreme Court has rejected jury-related issues raised by Tony Carruthers in an appeal of his three convictions and death sentences for the 1994 murders of a Memphis woman, her son and another man who were buried alive in a cemetery.Carruthers' petition to appeal was denied Tuesday…
February 10, 2004
Prosecutors, public defenders, the Tennessee Bar Association and foreign language interpreters are among groups participating Wednesday when the Tennessee Supreme Court hears arguments concerning proposed changes in a rule governing state-paid indigent defense.The court, which normally limits oral…