Press Releases
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that defendants who have entered a guilty plea cannot seek relief from that plea using a statutory procedure that the Court says is intended by Tennessee law only for those who have been found guilty at trial.
At issue is error coram nobis, a procedure…
The Trial Court Vacancy Commission will consider 11 applicants when it meets August 8, 2016 in Memphis to select nominees for the Circuit Court vacancy in the 30th Judicial District – Shelby County.
The vacancy was created by the announcement by Judge Donna M. Fields that…
The Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and sentences of death for Howard Hawk Willis for killing two East Tennessee teenagers and dismembering one of them.
In 2010, a Washington County jury convicted Mr. Willis of two counts of premeditated murder and one count of felony…