If you're an avid football fan (in Tennessee, hardly a select club), chances are you're not quite ready to cave in on the current NFL season, which has one game yet to go. That is, of course, the Super Bowl, marked this upcoming Sunday by parties and celebrations...
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Month: January 2017
Spotlight clearly on presidential commutation power last week
Like many other states, Tennessee is unfriendly terrain to individuals who are arrested and criminally charged on drug-related offenses. A high percentage of state and federal inmates are serving notably lengthy prison terms for crimes involving drugs One particular...
Court case raises questions regarding agency informants
Lots of people in Tennessee and across the country pursue income-enhancing opportunities to supplement the money they receive from their primary employers. In fact, many millions of Americans have second jobs. Although that pedestrian fact normally doesn't raise an...
Under fire from critics: guidance on campus sexual assaults
One fundamental distinction between civil and criminal law in the United States resides in the so-called "burden of proof" that must be established to assign liability to an alleged wrongdoer. In civil cases, a "preponderance of evidence" standard typically serves as...
Judges overturn “grossly disproportionate” sentencing outcome
You've been called to task. Impliedly, that was what a recent judicial ruling from an appellate panel was just as much about as was its actual determination resulting in the reversal of a sentence imposed earlier on a criminal defendant by a trial-court judge. What...
