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PRACTICE AREAS:
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals
- Personal Injury Law
- Civil Litigation
- Insurance Law
- Parole Applications
- Post-Conviction
Certifications of Specialization are available to Tennessee lawyers in all areas of practice relating to or included in the areas of Civil Trial, Criminal Trial, Business Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditor's Rights, Medical Malpractice, Legal Malpractice, Accounting Malpractice, Elder Law, Estate Planning, and Family Law. Listing of related or included practice areas herein does not constitute or imply a representation of certification of specialization.
PROFESSIONAL LISTING
Martindale-Hubbell (Highest Rating: AV)
FindLaw
EDUCATION
- Wake Forest University (B.A., 1977)
- University of Tennessee (J.D., 1982)
EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Public Advocate, Kentucky, 1982-1983
- Senior Assistant Public Advocate, Kentucky, 1983-1984
- Director, Regional Public Advocate's Office, Hazard, Kentucky, 1984-1986
- Senior Assistant Public Defender, Nashville, Tennessee, 1986-1991
BAR AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Nashville Bar Association
- Chairperson, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Committee (2001)
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Kentucky Bar Association
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- President, 1996
- President-Elect, 1995
- Treasurer, 1993-1994
- Board of Directors, 1990 1996, 2003, 2004
- Tennessee Bar Association Criminal Justice Executive Committee, 1997-1999
- Member, Board of Directors, 1990-1996
- Tennessee Board of Law Examiners, District Investigator 1993-2002
AWARDS
ARTICLES / MEDIA
REPORTED CASES
- State v. Readus, 764 S.W.2d 770 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1988) (established "unnecessary delay" in taking an arrested person before magistrate as one factor in considering a voluntary confession)
- State v. Watkins, 804 S.W.2d 884 (Tenn. Sup. Ct. 1991) (limited prosecutors use of enhanced sentencing statutes)
- State v. Black, 815 S.W.2d 166 (Tenn. Sup. Ct. 1991) (constitutionality of Tennessee's death penalty statutes; defined "mass murder" aggravation circumstance)
- Commonwealth v. Morris , 766 S.W.2d 58 (Ky. Sup. Ct. 1989) (required individual voir dire for death penalty cases; established that prosecutorial misconduct is reversible error)
- State v. Mcleod, 937 S.W.2d 867 (Tenn. 1996) (restricted admissibility of child-victim's statements to examining pediatrician and established criteria governing hearsay exception for statements for medical diagnosis and treatment)
- U.S.A. v. Errol Washington, 127 F.3d 510 (6th Cir. 1997) (challenged the constitutionality of the Federal statutory and sentencing guidelines for crack-cocaine)
- Horace Dunlap v. U.S., 250 F.3d 1001 (6th Cir. 2001),Cert. Denied, 122 S.Ct. 649 (established the one-year limitation period applicable to a motion attacking sentence is a statute of limitations subject to equitable tolling
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