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The Tennessee Supreme Court has two cases set for its March 31, 2021 docket. One case will be heard using livestream video conferencing and can be viewed at www.youtube.com/tncourts/feature, starting at 9 a.m. The other case will be…

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled today that a sentence imposed in accordance with a statute that is later declared unconstitutional is voidable, not illegal, within the meaning of Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1.

Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1 allows the defendant or…

In honor of Women’s History Month, we are looking back at some of the historic trailblazers who became Tennessee’s first female judges.

While young people today know only a world where female judges are a regular part of the judicial system, it was not so long ago that women on the bench…