For the past decade a retired lieutenant navy commander in east-central Tennessee has been waging a one-man bid to reform grand juries under the scale-tipping thumb of criminal court …
Kenny Burke is having none of my questions as I sit next to his desk in his cramped, cluttered office shared with a tractor dealership. The operator and owner …
As a broadcast journalist I try to help my listeners solve their problems. Here’s one that may bring fruit, depending on the openness of people in the sheriff’s department …
“History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come …
It’s not good enough, but it’s legal. It’s legal for the State of Tennessee to require criminal defendants such as Jimmy Lee Moore and Jon Luman to go to …
Sylvester Harris, a tough-talking former iron worker, is joining the civilian police oversight board in Chattanooga and expresses concern about the training of police officers that draws them toward …
Constructive possession of meth. Driving on suspended. Using a road when a sidewalk is available. Driving on revoked. These are criminal charges in four Tennessee cases that share a …
I propose a county government ask Sheriff Jim Hammond to comply with the TN shipping and transportation law— one used routinely to harass the poor, blacks, immigrants and others …
