Best Criminal Defense Pleading Ever! by Alex Friedmann PLN primarily reports on civil litigation involving prisons and jails rather than criminal cases. There are other resources that address criminal law; for example, Punch & Jurists (www.fedcrimlaw.com), which covers issues related to federal criminal cases. However, when we ran across a …
PLN Challenges Postcard-only Policy at Tennessee Jail by On October 10, 2013, Prison Legal News filed a federal lawsuit against Sullivan County, Tennessee, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff J. Wayne Anderson, alleging that the county jail unconstitutionally censored books, magazines, letters and other correspondence sent to prisoners and …
PLN v. Sullivan County, TN, Complaint, censorship, 2013 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE GREENEVILLE DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of the HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. SULLIVAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, SULLIVAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; and J. WAYNE ANDERSON, in his official and individual capacity, …
Thompson v. City of Lebanon, TN, Transcripts Car Chase, Crashed Police Shot at Crashed Car 14 times, 2013 In The Matter Of: MELINDA THOMPSON vs. CITY OF LEBANON, TENNESSEE WILLIAM J. LEWINSKI, Ph.D. August 28, 2013 Alpha Reporting Corporation 236 Adams Avenue Memphis, TN 38103 901-523-8974 To open files, click …
TN Public Records Act Requires Disclosure of Police Report by A suicide victim’s wife told police officers investigating the death that her husband killed himself after he found out about her extramarital affair. A reporter for the Jackson Sun requested the police report, and the city successfully moved the Equity …
Fourth Amendment: Unclear When Social Workers Violate by A U.S. appellate court held that three state social workers were entitled to qualified immunity from Fourth Amendment violations while a sheriff’s deputy was not. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, reviewed the decision of a U.S. District Court in Tennessee …
New Tennessee Parole Board Members have Apparent Bias Against Granting Parole by Alex Friedmann Tennessee Board of Parole Chairman Charles Traughber, who had served almost four decades on the Board and had a reputation for ruling it with an iron hand, retired in June 2013. To fill Traughber's vacant position, …
TN Attorney General Says Public Records Act Requires Disclosure After Redaction of Exempt Portions of Records by In September, 1998, the Tennessee Attorney General issued its opinion regarding the disclosability of records after redaction of legally exempt parts of the document, without any balancing of interests before disclosure. The AG …
Tennessee Judge Convicted Following Drug and Sex Scandal by During courtroom recesses, a Tennessee judge had sex with and bought drugs from his mistress, who was a felon on probation, according to a report by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Judge Richard Baumgartner, 66, who became a Criminal Court Judge …
Dessman v. Davidson County, TN, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2013 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Settlement Agreement is entered into on this ./!2_ day of July 2013, by and between· the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee ("Metropolitan Government"), William Gise (''Gise") and Curtis Dressman (''Dressman"). This Settlement Agreement also …
Tennessee Public Records Request of CCA Settlements, 2013 WA L K ER, T IPP S & MA LONE PLC ATIORNEYS AT LAW ROBERT J. WAl KER J . MARK TIPPS GAYLE MALON( , JR. LDWARD M. YARBROUGH I·J SEP!i F. WELBORN, Ill JOHN C. HAYWOR rH W SCOTI SIMS C:RIN …
TN Court of Appeals Rules Against CCA for Second Time in PLN Public Records Case by In February 2013, the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued its second ruling in a long-running lawsuit filed under the state's Public Records Act against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest for-profit private …
Tennessee Supreme Court: No Separate Parole Dates for Consecutive Sentences by Matthew T. Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 25, 2012, the Supreme Court of Tennessee held that prisoners with consecutive sentences are not entitled to separate parole eligibility dates for each sentence. The Court also clarified that a prisoner …
Sixth Circuit Holds FTCA Bars False Arrest Claim; Summary Judgment for Media Upheld by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a Tennessee woman's false arrest claims against the United States. It also affirmed the dismissal of defamation and false light claims against a media outlet. In …
Tennessee DOC Accused of Covering Up Violent Incidents by Alex Friedmann As previously reported in Prison Legal News, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has been experiencing higher levels of prisoner-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff violence since Commissioner Derrick Schofield was appointed in January 2011. The increased violence coincides with a number …
Federal Prison Industries Contract Leads to Freeworld Job Losses by The loss of a $45 million contract to produce military clothing has caused Tennessee-based Tennier Industries to lay off around 100 workers. The contract was awarded to Federal Prison Industries (FPI), also known as UNICOR, which will use prisoner slave …
Dressman v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davison County, TN, Order Denying Summary Judgment, Jail Assault, 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION CURTIS DRESSMAN, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE …
