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Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee Supreme Court today clarified that an alert from a trained drug-sniffing dog can be part of law enforcement’s probable cause for a search even though the dog cannot tell the difference between illegal marijuana and legal hemp.

On February 16, 2020, law…

Retired Knox County Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Joe D. Duncan passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 20 in Farragut. He was 100 years old.

In 1990, Judge Duncan retired from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. He was elected to the post by Governor Winfield Dunn, in 1975. Prior to his…

Fourth Judicial District Circuit Court Judge O. Duane Slone died in a traffic accident on Aug. 25, 2024, in Jefferson County. He was 61 years old.

Judge Slone, a former drug trafficking prosecutor, was first elected to the 4th Judicial District Circuit Court in 1998, and in 2009 he co-…