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National Center for State Courts – directory of state court websites. "Tennessee" , Caselaw Access Project , Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565 , Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
The Court of Criminal Appeals is one of Tennessee's two intermediate appellate courts. It hears trial court appeals in felony and misdemeanor cases, as well as post-conviction petitions. Appeals in civil cases are heard by the Tennessee Court of Appeals. The Court of Criminal Appeals was established by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1967. At ...
In the United States, a state court is a law court with jurisdiction over disputes with some connection to a U.S. state.State courts handle the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States; the United States federal courts are far smaller in terms of both personnel and caseload, and handle different types of cases.
Tennessee's Chancery Court was created in the first half of the 19th Century, and remains one of the few distinctly separate courts of equity in the United States. [4] While the Chancery Court and Tennessee's Circuit Court, the court of general civil and criminal jurisdiction, [3] may share a set of procedural rules in each county, there are ...
They are on the ballot just like the district attorney general (prosecutor). By virtue of several U.S. Supreme Court cases, the 14th Amendment, and action by the Tennessee General Assembly, we ...
All states have official "statewide repositories" that contain criminal history information contributed by the various county and municipal courts within the state. [7] In some states, minor criminal offenses are not included in the statewide record, or are included only if voluntarily reported by the court in which a conviction occurs.
TCA 40-32-101(a)(1)(A) All public records of a person who has been charged with a misdemeanor or a felony shall, upon petition by that person to the court having jurisdiction in the previous action, be removed and destroyed without cost to the person, if: The charge has been dismissed, a no true bill was returned by a grand jury, a verdict of ...
The judicial system, whether state or federal, begins with a court of first instance, whose work may be reviewed by an appellate court, and then ends at the court of last resort, which may review the work of the lower courts. [3] Institutions which may be considered courts of the United States are listed below.