Cook v. Cook, M2015-00253-COA-R3-CV
- Practice area: Divorce and separation
- Type: Appeal
- Date: Nov 20, 2015
- Outcome: Won — succeeded in having the trial court’s adverse ruling reversed by the Court of Appeals.
- Description: Post-divorce petition seeking modification of residential parenting schedule. The trial court ruled against client, finding that client’s proof was insufficient to justify a modification. The Court of Appeals reversed that ruling, finding that sufficient proof had been shown at trial to justify a modification to the residential parenting schedule.
State v. Eston Conley
- Practice area: Criminal defense
- Type: Trial
- Date: 2004
- Outcome: Not Guilty
- Description: Charge: Aggravated Assault on former girlfriend. I was able to show the jury that the alleged victim, my client’s former girlfriend, was not trustworthy, and was in fact lying to them about what happened in this case.
State v. Aaron Aytes, E2004-01051-CCA-R9-CD ( Crim. App. 2005 )
- Practice area: Criminal defense
- Type: Pre-trial motion hearing and Appeal
- Date: 2005
- Outcome: Charges dismissed.
- Description: Still cited for the affirmation that, in Tennessee, if the arrest or police search is bad, the evidence is also bad, and there is still no exception to this rule. Unlike the U.S. Supreme Court and some states, the Tennessee Supreme Court has not adopted a “good faith exception” to the rule excluding evidence obtained through an otherwise unreasonable search or invalid arrest. I won my motion to suppress the arrest and search of my client, and the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the trial court’s ruling.
State v. Ellison
- Practice area: Criminal defense
- Type: Trial
- Date: 2000
- Outcome: My client found not guilty of felony theft; jury only convicted client of JOYRIDING, a misdemeanor. Client was released on time served.
- Description:
Client was charged with theft over $60,000 — of a tractor/trailer, loaded with Cracker Jacks. Because of his prior felony convictions, he faced 12 to 20 years in prison if convicted. Despite an offer to settle of 8 years, he opted to go to trial. I convinced the jury that he did not steal the semi rig in which he was found sleeping.
State v. Larry M. Watson, E2000-01923-CCA-R3-CD
- Practice area: Criminal defense
- Type: Trial and Appeal
- Date: June 27, 2001
- Outcome: Reversal of trial court’s action
- Description: The Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the trial judge committed reversible error in her instructions to the jury. The defendant was originally charged with two felonies. At the conclusion of the trial, during which I represented the defendant, he was convicted of one felony and one misdemeanor. After I appealed the case, the defendant was convicted of two misdemeanors and no felonies.
