November 2013

My Dad often said that "those that have the capital don’t get the punishment." Boy, he is still right on the money. Nashville Dr.Eddie Hamilton pleaded guilty last week of  to a misdemeanor heath care fraud charge. It seems the good doctor was billing Tenn Care and insurance companies for procedures he never performed. Dr. .Hamilton

A Republican Congressman from Florida pleaded guilty in Federal Court in Washington D.C. to a misdemeanor charge of possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to one year of probation. He bought 3.5 grams of cocaine. How would that play out in Nashville,Tn. ?

First , possession of more than .5 grams of cocaine with the

I really don’t know what a blog really is supposed to look like. I comment on issues that interest me as well as things that come up in my law practice. Today , I thought I would report on how DUI cases are being handled in Murfreesboro, Tn. In 2012 , the Tennessee Legislature passed

The Franklin , Tennessee Police Department announced a DUI checkpoint for November 15,2013. From the announcement , it will be somewhere on Hillsboro Road.  In fact , the Franklin Police Department posted this announcement.  This is the teaching point of this post. In order to comply with any constitutional problem with DUI checkpoints or DUI roadblocks , the

     

Chattanooga criminal defense attorney Jerry Summers discovered a major problem with a blood alcohol test in a vehicular homicide case he was handing  Mr.. Summers requested an independent sample of his clients blood. The independent test came back completely different than what the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI)  analyst Kyle Bayer reported. The case against