Last week Vanderbilt basketball coach Kevin Starlings made ESPN Sportscenter for a remark that Stallings wish he would never have yelled. Right after Vanderbilt beat Tennessee , a player made some gestures that could be construed as unsportsmanlike . Stallings yelled at the player after the game " I am going to kill you". It happens all the time
Changes to Tennessee’s !2 hour hold in domestic violence cases is set for committee review this afternoon . Current law requires that anyone arrested for a domestic violence charge must be held in custody for 12 hours before one could make a bail bond. A judge has discretion to waive the 12 hour hold .
Earlier this week , I posted on the new changes in the docketing of domestic violence cases in Nashville Davidson County Tennessee. With new concepts in how to process domestic violence cases also comes new strategies in prosecuting the cases. It used to be if a witness did not appear in court after being subpoenaed
Last September , there began a shift in the procedure in how domestic violence cases are handled in Nashville Davidson County Tennessee. It has been almost six months since some major changes have been instituted. It all started with a study from Mayor Karl Dean’s office on how to combat domestic violence in Nashville .
Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk recently proposed a change in the procedure for docketing misdemeanor domestic violence cases once the cases are bound over to the grand jury from general sessions court . Currently, misdemeanor domestic violence cases are assigned to the criminal courts based on the date of arrest . General Funk made
There is no doubt that the video released by TMZ showed a frightening display of domestic violence by Ray Rice. The question is, why the change in policy by the NFL. Mr. Rice admitted guilt, entered a plea, and accepted responsibility for his actions. The NFL suspended him for two games. Then, the full video was
Last week I posted on Nashville’s domestic violence docket . I had a chance today to go observe the docket. Here are a couple of my observations:
Starting on September 2 , 2014 , the domestic violence docket in Nashville General Sessions Courts are undergoing some drastic changes. Mayor Dean issued a press release on some of the changes in August. Last night , I attended a meeting on the changes . Unfortunately , there is not a written protocol of the new process only some
Chas Sisk and Walter F. Roche Jr. reported today that Governor Haslam is in favor of making the 12 hour hold before a person can be released on bond mandatory. My prediction is that state legislators will be fighting each other over the chance to sponsor the proposed change . Kathy Walsh executive director of the
Recently, there has been extensive news coverage of a Nashville judge waiving the 12 hour hold in domestic violence cases. . Under T.C.A. 40-11-150(h)(1) a person arrested for stalking , aggravated stalking , especially aggravated stalking , or any criminal offense under title 39 chapter 13 may be held for 12 hours after arrest until