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Article • March 5, 2023
Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Training Teaches Police Officers How to Intervene When Their Fellow Officers Use Excessive Force by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An epidemic of police officers using excessive force in situations that do not require police brutality to subdue or arrest an individual in …
Article • February 19, 2023
Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Training Teaches Police Officers How to Intervene When Their Fellow Officers Use Excessive Force by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An epidemic of police officers using excessive force in situations that do not require police brutality to subdue or arrest an individual in …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: The DOJ Civil Rights Division announced on Oct. 21, 2022, that a former sheriff’s deputy in Dallas County was charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in the middle of the day on Jan. 30, 2020. The Miami Herald reported that the then-active deputy, …
Article • January 29, 2023
Body Cam Footage and Cellphone Videos Will Make the Quick Dismissals of Bad Police More Common by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When five police officers were fired in Tennessee less than two weeks after brutally beating Tyré Nichols on January 7, 2023, and causing his death, the …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WBMA in Birmingham reported that a former probation officer in Fayette County was convicted of sexual misconduct on Dec. 8, 2022. The former officer, Michael Steven Painter, 51, was found guilty on charges of using his office for personal gain and custodial sexual misconduct — …
Article • December 18, 2022
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Former Memphis Cop Sentenced to 12 Years for Scheme to Torture and Rob Drug Dealers by Kaden Gicker by Kaden Gicker One night, Eric Cain was pulled over as he was driving his car, The Commercial Appeal reported. The Tennessee drug dealer had seen a blue flashing light behind him …
Article • December 15, 2022 • from CLN January, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: A police officer in Scottsdale was arrested on Nov. 4, 2022, after allegedly causing a car crash while intoxicated. AZFamily reported that officer Michael Lanouar, a police detective, was taken into custody on suspicion that he had been driving a city-leased car while under the …
Publication • December 13, 2022
TN Lethal Injection Protocol Investigation Report and Findings-Dec. 13, 2022 TENNESSEE LETHAL INJECTION PROTOCOL INVESTIGATION REPORT AND FINDINGS Confidential Attorney-Client Communication And Attorney Work Product DECEMBER 13, 2022 Butler Snow LLP BU T L E R I SNOW INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Confidential Attorney-Client Communication And Attorney Work Product To: Governor Bill …
Publication • December 13, 2022
TN Lethal Injection Protocol Investigation Report and Findings 12-13-22 TENNESSEE LETHAL INJECTION PROTOCOL INVESTIGATION REPORT AND FINDINGS Confidential Attorney-Client Communication And Attorney Work Product DECEMBER 13, 2022 Butler Snow LLP BU T L E R I SNOW INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Confidential Attorney-Client Communication And Attorney Work Product To: Governor Bill Lee …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Sixth Circuit: District Court Confused ‘Attenuation Doctrine’ and ‘Inevitable Discovery Exception’ in Applying Exclusionary Rule by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated the U.S. District Court for the District of Western Tennessee’s denial of a defendant’s suppression motion, ruling the …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Court documents revealed the week of Oct. 3, 2022, show that a former Brookside police chief, Mike Jones, was indicted by a grand jury for speeding and impersonating an officer. AL.com reported that Jones had resigned from his post as the town’s Chief of Police …
Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022
Sixth Circuit: Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery Are Not Qualifying Predicates to Sustain § 924(j) Conviction by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee’s denial of Dominique Cordell Wallace’s 28 …
Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: A Mulberry police officer and two sheriff’s deputies from Crawford County were suspended after a video surfaced appearing to show them beating a man suspected of making violent threats. Maine Public Radio reported that the three officers were videoed by a bystander as they held …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Filed under: First Step Act
Sixth Circuit Reverses Denial of First Step Act Relief Because Sentence Imposed Is Substantively Unreasonable by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee’s denial of Michael B. Johnson, II’s motion seeking a …
FBI Forces Suspect to Unlock Messaging App Using FaceID by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In the first known public instance of such a warrant, a US District Court approved a warrant allowing the FBI to use a suspect’s face to unlock his secure messaging app in order to …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: The Daily News reported that two former police officers from Fullerton and Anaheim were indicted on counts of kidnapping while working illegally as bounty hunters. The former officers were Rodger Corbett, 49, formerly of the Fullerton PD and Kevin Pedersen, 34, formerly of the Anaheim …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from CLN May, 2022
Tennessee County Disproportionately Jails Black Children, and It’s Not Getting Better by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett Tennessee’s Rutherford County hasbeenunderscrutinyafteritwaswidelycriticizedforitsdysfunctional juvenilejusticesystem.TheCountyhasbeenincarceratingBlackchildrenatadisproportionatelyhighrate, accordingtodataobtainedbyProPublicaandNashvillePublicRadio(“NPR”).Themostrecentdatarevealthat theCounty’sincarcerationofBlackyouthisanextremedeparturefromnationaltrendsandtheCounty’sracial disparityisgettingworse,notbetter. ProPublica and NPR documented how Rutherford County charged 11 Black children for a crime that did not exist. Four of the children were confined in …
Article • April 18, 2022
Woman Suing Deputy, Who Has a History of Performing Anal Cavity Searches During Traffic Stops, for Forcibly ‘Baptizing’ Her During Traffic Stop Found Dead by Brooke Kaufman by Brook Kaufman A bizarre story out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, captured national attention in 2019 when a police officer stripped down to his …
Brief • April 12, 2022
McGhee v. Grainger County, TN, Class Action Complaint, Sexual Abuse, 2022 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NORTHEASTERN DIVISION CANDACE MCGHEE and CHASITY BAILEY, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) No. _______________________ ) GRAINGER COUNTY, Tennessee …
Brief • March 30, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Busby v. Bonner, TN, Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motiont to Enforce, Covid Response, 2022 Case 2:20-cv-02359-SHL-atc Document 316 Filed 03/30/22 Page 1 of 22 PageID 5822 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION FAVIAN BUSBY and MICHAEL EDGINGTON, on …
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