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He is given much of the credit for winning passage of major education legislation proposed by Governor Alexander, nursing home reforms, the Tennessee Sentencing Commission Act, and tort reform. Among the successful legislation that he sponsored were laws mandating use of seatbelts and limiting the nighttime hours of work for teenage students.
1993–1996: Member, Commission on Future of the Tennessee Judicial System; 1990–1994: Member, Tennessee Sentencing Commission; 1980–1988: Tennessee Bar Association House of Delegates; 1985–1987: Member, Tennessee Municipal Bond Fund, Board of Directors and Treasurer; 1983–1987: Member, Tennessee Municipal Attorneys Association
Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2001), was a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that there is no due process violation for lack of fair warning when pre-existing common law limitations on what acts constitute a crime, under a more broadly worded statutory criminal law, are broadened to include additional acts, even when there is no notice to the defendant that the court might undo the common ...
Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused a former Tennessee state senator of intentionally delaying his sentencing after the Republican unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw his guilty plea to ...
Pike would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. The Tennessee Supreme Court has not set an execution date for Pike. Evan Mealins is the justice reporter for The Tennessean.
State of Tennessee v. RaDonda L. Vaught was an American legal trial in which former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse after she mistakenly administered the wrong medication that killed a patient in 2017. [1] She was sentenced to three years' probation.
The law, commonly referred to as “blended sentencing,” will keep children in the juvenile justice system longer. It is also expected to push more kids into the adult criminal justice system.
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines were promulgated by a sentencing commission; the Washington sentencing guidelines at issue in Blakely, by contrast, were enacted by that state's legislature. That distinction, the Court said, "lacked constitutional significance," because regardless of the body that set the rules, the rules required sentencing ...