Tennessee Drunk Driving Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Tennessee or Court of Appeals of Tennessee where the terms dui, dwi, drunk driving, or driving under the influence has been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily criminal cases and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions drunk driving related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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State v. Hopper - 3/31/2005
FACTS
The defendant's convictions stemmed from two separate driving incidents that occurred on November 1 and November 6, 2002, in Shelby County. At the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor reminded the trial court of the facts...
State v. Thomas - 3/30/2005
FACTS
Because of the complexity of this matter, we first will give an overview of the facts. While passing through Knoxville on the morning of March 23, 1991, on their way to vacation in North Carolina, John and Yvonne Cook of...
Biscan v. Brown - 3/30/2005
Background
The plaintiff, Jennifer Biscan ("Jennifer"), age 16, was severely injured in a single-car automobile accident after leaving a party hosted by the defendant, Paul Worley ("Worley"), at his home in Williamson County,...
State v. Mason - 3/29/2005
Because Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the convicting evidence, we will only briefly outline the evidence supporting her conviction. Officer Richard Foley with the Metro Nashville Police Department was on routine...
State v. Travis - 3/28/2005
Factual Background
The defendant, Jones Everett Travis, was arrested on June 28, 2003, after he drove into two pedestrians. The officers asked the defendant to submit to a blood or breath test to determine his blood alcohol...
State v. Jones - 3/18/2005
On September 25, 2001, Richard Steinbach, a paramedic with Warren and Dekalb County Emergency Medical Services, responded to a call at the defendant's residence. When he arrived, the defendant, the sole caretaker of the victim,...
State v. Marise - 3/14/2005
Factual Background
On March 19, 2002, Deputy Michael Darnell of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, while on routine patrol, observed a 1983 Plymouth partially parked in the roadway. Two men, later identified as the...
State v. Castanon - 3/8/2005
I. Background
At Defendant's trial, the victim testified that on May 17, 1998, around two-thirty in the morning, she came home to her apartment alone after an evening out. She fixed herself breakfast and watched television for...
State v. Yates - 3/1/2005
Factual Background
On October 25, 2003, about 3:30 in the afternoon, Appellant was driving on a rural road in Obion County, and ran off the road into a ditch full of water. The vehicle ended on its side in the water. Appellant...
State v. Dunham - 3/1/2005
FACTS
On June 2, 1997, the Macon County Grand Jury charged the defendant with premeditated first degree murder for the April 23, 1997, shooting death of his father, Clinton Dunham. On October 5, 1998, the defendant pled guilty...
Wassom v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. - 2/24/2005
Background
Plaintiff was insured through an automobile insurance policy issued by State Farm. After Plaintiff's vehicle was totaled in a single-car accident and State Farm refused to pay her claim, Plaintiff filed this suit...
State v. Simmons - 2/23/2005
On December 1, 2002, pursuant to an investigation into an alleged domestic disturbance, a Cookeville police officer stopped the car Defendant was driving. The officer subsequently determined that Defendant was intoxicated and placed...
State v. Lezotte - 2/18/2005
On August 17, 2003, Officer Randy Huskey of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency was patrolling the Carson Island/Smokey Branch Area of Tellico Lake by boat when he observed the defendant, who was on shore with a can of beer in...
Blackburn v. State - 2/15/2005
I. Facts
On December 3, 1998, a jury convicted the Petitioner of first degree premeditated murder, first degree felony murder, and aggravated robbery. The trial court merged the murder convictions, and sentenced the Petitioner...
State v. Carroll - 2/15/2005
I. Factual Background
In the light most favorable to the State, the proof adduced at trial reveals that at approximately 9:30 p.m. on March 2, 2001, the appellant was driving home from visiting friends. His wife, Melissa...
Sanders v. State - 2/15/2005
I. Facts
This appeal arises from the dismissal of the Petitioner's petition for post-conviction relief. The Petitioner asserts that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at his second trial on charges of possession of a...
State v. Turner - 2/11/2005
FACTS
At approximately 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20, 2002, Shelbyville Police Officers Christopher Jones and Bruce Davis saw the defendant run a traffic light at one of the city's major intersections. When the officers...
Yelton v. Mills - 2/11/2005
Factual Background
In 1971, the petitioner was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in Butler County, Alabama. In October of 1987, the petitioner was paroled from his Alabama sentence.
On...
State v. Trotter-Lawson - 2/10/2005
Factual Background
Jessica Trotter-Lawson and Andrew Sheriff met in Bristol, Virginia, while working at a restaurant together. Mr. Sheriff left the restaurant in 2000 to take a job with UPS in Memphis. Ms. Trotter and her son...
State v. Moss - 2/4/2005
On June 6, 2002, the defendant was sentenced to three years following his conviction of reckless aggravated assault. The trial court ordered ninety days in jail. After the defendant completed the period of incarceration, he was...
Lambright v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh - 2/3/2005
National Union Fire Insurance Company filed a declaratory judgment action, naming Ludmilla Lambright and husband, Antonio Lambright, and Michael George Eberly as defendants and seeking a determination of whether or not Michael George...
Eidson v. State - 2/1/2005
On July 14, 1997, the Petitioner was declared to be an habitual traffic offender. According to the trial court order, the Petitioner is incarcerated because he pled guilty to: (1) Driving after having been declared an Habitual...
State v. Overholt - 1/21/2005
A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant of the following offenses:
Offense
Class
Offense Date
Sale of marijuana
Class A misdemeanor
February 25, 2000
Sale of marijuana
...
Doe 1 ex rel Doe 1 v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville - 1/18/2005
I. Factual and Procedural Background
Because this appeal concerns a grant of summary judgment, the following statement of facts is based upon a view of the record that is most favorable to the nonmoving parties, John Doe 1 by...
Taylor v. City of Chattanooga - 1/13/2005
At trial, the parties entered into a stipulation of fact as recited by the Trial Court in its Memorandum and Judgment:
Prior to the commencement of the trial, the parties entered into the following stipulation: The Plaintiff,...
Sircy v. State - 1/12/2005
Based upon our review of the record on appeal, it appears that the Defendant, Tarus A. Sircy, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of three counts of burglary of an automobile on January 31, 2002. Pursuant to his plea agreement, he...
State v. Gouge - 1/10/2005
On April 3, 2003, the defendant entered a plea of guilt to driving under the influence, first offense. The trial court imposed a sentence of eleven months, twenty-nine days. After a four-day jail term, the defendant was released on...
State v. Seiler - 12/30/2004
I. Facts
This case arises from the Defendant's arrest and subsequent conviction for DUI that occurred on July 21, 2002. Prior to entering a guilty plea, the Defendant filed a motion to suppress his statements contending that...
Clement v. Clement - 12/30/2004
This is an appeal from a final decree of divorce. Janet Leigh Traylor Clement ("Ms. Clement") challenges the trial court's judgment on numerous grounds relating to the valuation, classification, and distribution of marital property....
State v. Cates - 11/24/2004
The defendant, Roger Dale Cates, was convicted of driving under the influence, third offense. The trial court imposed a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days with one hundred twenty days to be served in jail and the balance to be...
State v. Trew - 11/17/2004
This is an appeal as of right pursuant to Rule 3 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure. The Defendant, Michael Trew, was found guilty by jury verdict of driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUI), a Class A misdemeanor, and...
State v. Mullican - 11/15/2004
The Defendant was convicted, upon a plea of guilty, of attempted manufacture of methamphetamine. She received a three year suspended sentence. She began serving her period of probation in December 2001. Don Fox, her probation officer,...
State v. Nidiffer - 11/10/2004
The Carter County Criminal Court ruled that the state could not suspend the defendant's driver's license for one year pursuant to T.C.A. § 55- 10-406(a)(3), the implied consent law, because it found he was not under arrest when he refused...
State v. O'Malley - 10/22/2004
Dan D. O'Malley appeals his conviction of felony DUI (fourth time conviction), pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1567(a)(3).
On October 19, 2001, at 1:30 p.m., O'Malley left his job of mixing and carrying cement at a construction site and went to...
State v. Smith - 10/22/2004
The State of Kansas filed this interlocutory appeal following the district court's order suppressing evidence in relation to Kevin G. Smith's arrest for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol.
Wellington police officer Lee Patterson...
State v. Bellamy - 10/20/2004
The appellant, Andrew John Bellamy, pled guilty to driving on a revoked license and third offense DUI and reserved, with the consent of the State and the court, the right to appeal a certified question of law that is dispositive of the...
State v. Salmon - 10/14/2004
Following a jury trial, Defendant, Ronnie W. Salmon, was convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, second offense, a Class A misdemeanor. The trial court sentenced Defendant to eleven months, twenty-nine days, all...
Robinson v. Bell - 10/12/2004
This case arises from the habeas court's dismissal of the Petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus. As previously stated, this case is procedurally complex. On August 8, 1989, the Petitioner was arrested and charged with Driving...
State v. Sedillos - 10/8/2004
Phillip Sedillos appeals from a bench trial conviction of driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol in violation of K.S.A.2002 Supp. 8-1567. First, Sedillos argues that because he had previously been informed that his prior DUI...
State v. Fonseca-Ortega - 10/8/2004
Antonio Fonseca-Ortega appeals his convictions of involuntary manslaughter committed while driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless aggravated battery, reckless driving, and transporting an open container. The State concedes that...
State v. Williams - 10/8/2004
Submitted for summary disposition pursuant to K.S.A. 21-4721(g) and (h).
Kenneth Williams appeals from the denial of his motion to correct the sentence imposed following his conviction for reckless involuntary manslaughter. Finding no...
State v. Campbell - 10/6/2004
The defendant was convicted of driving under the influence ("DUI"), first offense, and sentenced to eleven months, twenty-nine days in the county jail, with all but forty-eight hours suspended and the balance to be served on probation. In...
State v. Fairbetter - 10/1/2004
The defendant, Gregory Fairbetter, was charged with driving under the influence and violating the implied consent law. The defendant filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that because the videotape of his arrest had been destroyed by the...
State v. Maskrid - 10/1/2004
Donald C. Maskrid appeals his sentences for convictions of two counts of driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI). We affirm.
In September 2001 and January 2002, Maskrid was arrested for DUI. Maskrid pled guilty in both cases....
State v. Abod - 10/1/2004
Christopher Abod claims the trial court erred in sentencing him to a consecutive prison term. We affirm.
Abod pled no contest to third offense driving while under the influence (DUI), a felony, and was sentenced to 12 months in jail. The...
State v. Mysinger - 10/1/2004
Paul W. Mysinger appeals the trial court's application of K.S.A.2003 Supp. 8-1567 to his sentence for driving while under the influence (DUI). We affirm.
In December 2002, Mysinger was charged with two counts of driving under the...
State v. Miller - 10/1/2004
Michael S. Miller appeals from the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to one count of driving under the influence (DUI) and one count of driving with a suspended license. The State has filed a notice of intent to file no brief and...
Weinhold v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue - 10/1/2004
Brenda Weinhold appeals from the district court decision affirming the suspension of her driver's license for her refusal to submit to a breath alcohol test. We affirm.
Background Facts
Weinhold was involved in a two-vehicle accident at...
State v. Kemper - 9/30/2004
The defendant's statement of the evidence pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 24(c), verified by the state as accurate, provides, in pertinent part, as follows:
Lawrenceburg olice fficer Trac y Odom stopped [the...
State v. Henry - 9/29/2004
Factual Background
The victim, Tammy Henry, is the defendant's wife. The defendant and the victim had been married for about six years when the incident giving rise to these convictions occurred. At trial, the victim testified...
State v. Shaw - 9/28/2004
FACTS
On October 10, 2001, the defendant shot and killed the twenty-eight-year-old victim, Michael Carter, following an argument that occurred on the balcony outside the victim's girlfriend's apartment. The defendant fled after...
State v. Godsey - 9/27/2004
On March 11, 2002, the State filed a petition to declare Defendant an habitual motor vehicle offender pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 55-10-607. As predicate offenses, the State alleged that Defendant had been convicted...
State v. Hughes - 9/24/2004
Ginger Sample and her mother, Evelyn Sample, were driving toward Cleveland, Tennessee, when they observed a green car attempting to pull in between a truck and a Honda automobile. Ms. Sample said that the green car then hit the back...
Wiley v. State - 9/23/2004
A jury convicted the petitioner of the felony murder and especially aggravated robbery of Frank Andrews for events occurring on June 6, 1995. The petitioner received concurrent sentences of life without parole and twenty-five years,...
State v. Burns - 9/21/2004
On January 5, 2002, Deandre Walker, who had been acquainted with the defendant for approximately nine years and who had purchased marijuana from him regularly during that time, telephoned the defendant to arrange a meeting to...
State v. Cooper - 9/20/2004
FACTS
On August 4, 1997, the Blount County Grand Jury indicted the defendant, Kathy E. Cooper, on one count of vehicular homicide by intoxication and one count of vehicular homicide by reckless driving based on a September 27,...
State v. Ganus - 9/7/2004
Factual Background
On May 18, 2003, the Appellant lost control of the vehicle he was driving, and during the resulting "crash," was ejected from the vehicle. After arriving at the scene, officers charged the Appellant with DUI...
State v. Hicks - 9/3/2004
Jesse L. Hicks appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence. We affirm.
At approximately 10:48 p.m. on January 3, 2001, Master Trooper Dennis Tate received a call from dispatch about a suspected drunk driver on...
State v. Chamberlain - 9/3/2004
Richard H. Chamberlain appeals from his bench trial conviction of driving under the influence (DUI) and from the sentence imposed for that offense. On appeal, Chamberlain asserts a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clauses of the United...
State v. Bowles - 9/3/2004
The State appeals a district court decision that alternative driving under the influence (DUI) charges withdrawn by the State before a magistrate judge could not be considered when the defendant, Brian Bowles, appealed to the district...
State v. Bellamy - 9/1/2004
The record reflects that the petitioner was convicted pursuant to guilty pleas of three counts of violating the Motor Vehicle Habitual Offenders Act by operating a motor vehicle in violation of an existing order prohibiting him from...
State v. Bellamy - 8/31/2004
Factual Background
In April of 2003, the Sullivan County Grand Jury issued a presentment charging the appellant with eleven counts arising out of a multiple vehicle collision that occurred on March 5, 2003, in Kingsport,...
State v. Arroyo - 8/30/2004
This is the second review by this Court of the sentencing of the defendant, Guadalupe Arroyo. The first appeal resulted in remand for a new sentencing hearing. See State v. Guadalupe Arroyo, No. E2002-00639- CCA-R3-CD, 2003 Tenn....
State v. Ballard - 8/27/2004
FACTS
Because the record on appeal does not contain a copy of the trial transcript, our knowledge of the facts resulting in the defendant's prosecution comes from various other parts of the record. According to the affidavits...
State v. Parker - 8/19/2004
Officer Tony Jenkins of the McMinnville Police Department testified that, early in the morning on March 9, 1998, he was on patrol. As he sat at a stop sign, he "heard tires squealing," then saw a red Mitsubishi Eclipse "going a...
State v. Polston - 8/19/2004
I. Facts
The Shelby County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant for aggravated assault after he hit a man on the dance floor of a Memphis bar on September 7, 2002. A jury convicted the Defendant of reckless aggravated assault, and...
State v. Boxx - 8/18/2004
At approximately 10:30 P.M. on April 24, 2003, Memphis Patrol Officer B.E. Copley observed the defendant walk to a car in the parking lot of the Fox and Hound Restaurant. After entering his vehicle, the defendant moved what appeared...
State v. Rice - 8/17/2004
Factual Background
On January 7, 2002, Officer Donald Pyrtle of the Metro Nashville Police Department was dispatched to 407 Cumberland Avenue to investigate a complaint that a red Z-28 Camaro was speeding and "burning" tires as...
State v. Perkins - 8/17/2004
Factual Background
According to the affidavit of complaint filed by the arresting officer:
On 2-17-03 affiant [a police officer with the LaFollette Police Department] observed . . . [the appellant] traveling east on East...
State v. Pyburn - 8/16/2004
I. Factual Background
At trial, Alice Rheal, the victim's grandmother, testified that when the victim was young, he lived in foster care. However, upon turning eighteen years old, the victim moved to Alabama to live with his...
State - 8/13/2004
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
C.H.K., the Appellant in this case, gave birth to a son, J.W.P., on January 23, 2000. In January of 2002, C.H.K. and her minor son, moved from the State of Alabama to Nashville, Tennessee to reside with...
State v. Wright - 8/12/2004
Late in the evening on February 2, 2001, Deputy Steven Browder of the Tipton County Sheriff's Office was on patrol. At approximately 11:45 p.m., Deputy Browder observed a late-model Chevrolet truck, driven by the Defendant, weaving...
State v. Creason - 8/10/2004
We will first briefly summarize the facts presented at trial, in the light most favorable to the State. Officer Kenneth Pruitt testified that on September 28, 2000, he was employed as a police officer with the Pikeville Police...
State v. Bowery - 8/6/2004
At approximately 2:00 a.m. on December 9, 2002, Officer Lee Cutshall of the Tennessee Highway Patrol Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division was working at a commercial vehicle weight and inspection station when the defendant's...
State v. Norman - 8/5/2004
Factual Background
The appellant was arrested in Hollow Rock, Tennessee on January 12, 2002 for driving under the influence of an intoxicant ("DUI"), driving on a revoked license, vandalism over $1,000, and violation of the...
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