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The process to transfer the criminal court services to Rutherford County General Sessions Courts also requires approval from the Tennessee General Assembly and a final two-thirds vote by the ...
Hercules and the mayor have described the 30-year Smyrna General Sessions Court as a duplication of taxpayer services already provided by Rutherford County as a requirement of state law.
The town manager and the council in a 5-2 vote contend the costs for the General Sessions Court criminal cases is a duplication of services that by state law must be provided by county government ...
The Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is a Classical Revival building from 1859. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [ 1 ] It is one of six remaining antebellum county courthouses in Tennessee [ 2 ]
The following year, Rutherford County agreed to a class action settlement of $397,500 for the 11 children. [12] In May 2017, a federal court ordered Rutherford County to stop using Davenport's so-called "filter system", [1] [16] noting that it "departs drastically" from ordinary juvenile detention standards. The court wrote that the "illegal ...
Rutherford County was formed in 1803 from parts of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties, [1] and named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). [7] Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution.
Criminal cases and costs Hercules estimates to be more than $900,000 would relocate to General Sessions Courts at the Rutherford County Judicial Center in downtown Murfreesboro, should the ...
Retired Rutherford County General Sessions Court Judge Ben Hall McFarlin said he agreed with the mayor on the benefits of recovery courts that save the taxpayers from the costs of incarcerating ...