Phillip Knight vs. State
01C01-9709-CR-00417

Karn Tom Thongkumgool
01C01-9707-CR-00281

State vs. Weddington
03C01-9607-CR-00258

Lola Taylor v. James Taylor
M1999-02398-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Royce Taylor
This appeal arises from the dissolution of a four-year marriage. The wife sought a divorce in the Circuit Court for Rutherford County because of the husband's chronic drunkenness, non-support, and threats of violence. Following a bench trial, the court granted the wife a divorce on the ground of inappropriate marital conduct. The trial court also divided the martial estate, gave the wife custody of the parties' four-year-old daughter, and directed the husband to pay child support. On this appeal, the husband asserts that the trial court erred in its classification and division of the marital property, that the trial court awarded an excessive amount of child support, and that the trial court erred by denying his request to place a portion of his child support in an educational trust fund. For her part, the wife requests an additional award to defray her legal expenses for this appeal. We conclude that the trial court (1) correctly classified and divided the marital estate, (2) properly sequestered a portion of the husband's assets to assure the timely and regular payment of his child support, and (3) properly declined to establish an educational trust fund for the child. We also conclude that the trial court erred by failing to direct the trial court clerk to return the remainder of the sequestered funds to the husband when his child support obligation ceased. In addition, we decline to award the wife her legal expenses for this appeal or to find that this appeal was frivolous.

Sarah Beth Clingan Overstreet v. Shoney's, Inc.
01A01-9612-CV-00566
Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Judge John A. Turnbull

This appeal involves a freakish accident in which a shard from a broken dinner plate caused a restaurant patron to lose the sight in her left eye. The patron and her husband filed suit against the waitress who dropped the plate and the restaurant in the Circuit Court for Putnam County seeking damages for her injuries and for his loss of consortium. Following a three-day trial, the jury awarded the patron $2,013,000. On this appeal, the restaurant takes issue with several of the trial court’s evidentiary rulings, the trial court’s verdict form, and the trial court’s refusal to grant a remittitur. We affirm the judgment.

State vs. Robert Bitner
02C01-9903-CC-00108

See State v. James Clark, No. 02C01-9206-Cr-00149, 1993 Wl 414015, At *1 (Tenn. Crim. App.,
W2007-01260-CCA-R3-PC
Authoring Judge: Judge Camille R. McMullen
Trial Court Judge: James M. Lammey

E1999-00235-C0A-R3-CV
E1999-00235-C0A-R3-CV
Trial Court Judge: Thomas W. Graham

Joe L. Utley vs. State
M1999-00560-CCA-MR3-PC
Authoring Judge: Judge Thomas T. Woodall
Trial Court Judge: Seth W. Norman

State vs. Ronald Crafton
W2001-00320-CCA-R3-CO
Authoring Judge: Judge Alan E. Glenn
Trial Court Judge: Joseph H. Walker, III
The petitioner appeals the trial court's dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus relief. The trial court determined that the allegations contained in the petitioner's pro se petition were not ones that would entitle him to habeas corpus relief, and therefore dismissed his petition. After a careful review of the record, we affirm the trial court's dismissal of the petition.

David Cross vs. James Dukes
W2000-02197-CCA-R3-CO
Authoring Judge: Judge Joe G. Riley
Trial Court Judge: Joseph H. Walker, III
Petitioner appeals the summary dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The trial court determined that petitioner did not receive an illegal sentence, and petitioner now appeals this ruling. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Adkins vs. Keck
03A01-9804-CV-00141

Terrence Liddle vs. Ricky Bell, Warden
01C01-9709-CR-00395

Andre Bland v. State of Tennessee
W2007-00020-CCA-R3-PD
Authoring Judge: Judge John Everett Williams
Trial Court Judge: W. Fred Axley

Dexter Frank Johnson vs. State
E2004-01260-CCA-R3-HC
Authoring Judge: Judge Norma McGee Ogle
Trial Court Judge: Stephen M. Bevil
The petitioner, Dexter Frank Johnson, appeals the dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The state has filed a motion requesting that this court affirm the action of the trial court pursuant to Rule 20, Tenn. Ct. Crim. App. R. The petition fails to present a cognizable claim for habeas corpus relief. Accordingly, the state's motion is granted and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

03A01-9506-CV-00205
03A01-9506-CV-00205
Trial Court Judge: Inman

Johnny McGowan, Jr. vs. State
M2003-01759-CCA-R3-HC
Authoring Judge: Judge Robert W. Wedemeyer
Trial Court Judge: Don Ash
The Petitioner, Johnny L. McGowan, Jr., pled guilty in 1994 to aggravated arson, arson, six counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and two counts of vandalism, and the trial court sentenced him to twenty years in prison, to be served concurrently with a sentence from a previous conviction. In 2003, the Petitioner filed two pro se petitions for writs of habeas corpus in case numbers 27902 and 27903 alleging that his guilty pleas were not entered knowingly and voluntarily and requesting that the trial court appoint him counsel. The trial court summarily dismissed the petitions because it found that the Petitioner's claims, considered in the light most favorable to him, would at best render his convictions voidable and not void. On appeal, the Petitioner contends that the trial court erred by denying his request for appointment of counsel and by dismissing his petitions because there were "fatal variances" between the indictments and the evidence contained in the record. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the trial court's judgments.

Arthur Kerr vs. Christina Kerr
M2000-01730-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Trial Court Judge: Carol A. Catalano
The trial court granted the parties a divorce, divided the marital property, and ordered child support, but not alimony. On appeal, the wife argues that the trial court erred in its division of marital property and in its failure to award her rehabilitative alimony. We affirm the trial court.

In re: The Adoption of female child, E.N.R.
01A01-9806-CH-00316

Rhodney Roberson v. State of Tennessee
W2003-01236-CCA-R3-PC
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Joseph M. Tipton
Trial Court Judge: Joseph H. Walker, III

Paris vs. The City of Lebanon Personnel Review Bd.
01A01-9702-CH-00054

Jacqueline Fields vs. Vincent Fifer
02A01-9804-JV-00118

Clinton Lien v. Nashville and Davidson County
M2002-00721-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Trial Court Judge: Walter C. Kurtz
Chief Emmett H. Turner, of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Police Department, discharged Appellant from employment as a police officer for certain violations of various rules and regulations. The officer appealed his discharge and, after a hearing, the Administrative Law Judge reduced his penalty to a thirty day suspension. The appeal was further heard before the Civil Service Commission, which reversed the ALJ and upheld the dismissal of the officer. The Chancery Court of Davidson County upheld the action of the Civil Service Commission. The officer appeals, and we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

01A01-9503-Ch-00117
01A01-9503-Ch-00117

Mark L. Grimes v. Fred Rainey, Warden
W2002-01583-CCA-R3-CO
Authoring Judge: Judge Jerry Smith
Trial Court Judge: R. Lee Moore Jr.