Presumption of innocence under threat
The presumption of innocence – a right guaranteed all Americans under the U.S. Constitution...
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Category: Let’s Talk-Law
Killer released to prison after botched execution
Tennessee has a lethal injection problem. The state tried and failed twice to execute Christa Gail...
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Citizen access to grand juries under microscope
A citizen’s bid to seek an indictment against an East Tennessee prosecutor appears to have failed....
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Learning to work camera … learning to write ‘law’
Hey, folks. This will be my final Monday column for a while. I need the day off. Not Monday, but...
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Saying so long to Jacobs, Spangler and Biggs + Fleischmann secures research grant ++
Eight years flies when you’re having fun. Tomorrow, September 1, 2026, starting at 10 a.m. at the...
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Thomas Varlan steps back + Samuel Adkisson nominated + Houston Havasty is clerk & master ++
Thomas Varlan to take senior status in October U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan will take...
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Lonnie Brown leaves UT; is dean at Temple + Heidi Barcus + Lee Welch ++
Lonnie T. Brown, four-year dean of the Winston College of Law at the University of Tennessee,...
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Only $100 separates KPD’s Noel and JD Vance + CLE on wreck info + David Piper, Snake Cain ++
Looking at salaries When KPD Chief Paul Noel was suspended without pay for 30 days, we learned his...
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TN justices at work + Martha Yoakum remembered + Stockwell retires + Faith Carpenter ++
Supreme Court justices engage students at Boys and Girls State Every year, the Tennessee Supreme...
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Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden + Prof. Sundby is published
Disney World in the Rose Garden At Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World lives the...
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Lincoln exhibit for nation’s 250th + KBA rates candidates + Boosting rural lawyers
LMU Museum opens ‘Lincoln: Echoes of 1776’ exhibit The Lincoln Memorial University-Abraham Lincoln...
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Hixson joins TN Supreme Court + Alex Long gets Jefferson Prize ++
Gov. Bill Lee was in Knoxville on July 7, 2026, for the investiture of Justice Kyle A. Hixson as...
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