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 - 7/29/2004
The Department of Children's Services (DCS) filed a Petition to Terminate Parental Rights of the mother, CBH, to the minor child, SB, on December 9, 2002, alleging that mother had abandoned the child, has not complied with her...
State v. Roller - 7/26/2004
Factual Background
On August 23, 2002, Officer David Slessinger of the Metropolitan Police Department DUI Task Force was working an off-duty job at a Tennessee Titans' football game. After the game, he drove on I-40 east in his...
State v. Haney - 7/20/2004
FACTS
The defendant was charged in a fourteen-count indictment with violation of a MVHO order; DUI; DUI, second offense; violation of the implied consent law; driving on a revoked license; driving on a revoked license, third...
State v. Poe - 7/19/2004
On the evening of April 1, 2001, Dr. Ralph Smith, an emergency room physician at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, treated the twelve-day-old victim, Taylor Poe, who appeared lethargic, had multiple bruises and abrasions, and cried...
State v. Byington - 7/19/2004
FACTS
Officer Jason McClain of the Kingsport Police Department testified that on December 20, 2001, at approximately 1:00 a.m., he observed the defendant leaving a nightclub in Kingsport. McClain followed the defendant as he...
State v. Smith - 7/19/2004
On February 12, 2003, the defendant entered a guilty plea in case number 239832 to driving under the influence, third offense. See Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 55-10-401, -403. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the defendant received an agreed...
State v. McGill - 7/15/2004
This case results from the defendant's arrest on January 25, 2002, for violating a motor vehicle habitual offender order. At the guilty plea hearing, the state gave the following account of the crime:
fficers with the...
State v. Harris - 7/13/2004
At approximately 3:00 A.M. on September 19, 2001, Officer Trey Clanton of the Shelbyville Police Department observed a white Cadillac traveling west in the eastbound lane of Depot Street. Officer Clanton, who was in a marked patrol...
State v. Monk - 7/12/2004
This case relates to the defendant's being stopped for riding a dirt bike without a helmet on May 13, 2002. Officer Brian Carter of the Kingsport Police Department testified that about 11:30 a.m. on May 13, he was on patrol and...
State v. Ballard - 7/8/2004
On April 18, 2002, the Defendant was placed on probation for eleven months and twenty-nine days after he pled guilty to driving under the influence. On August 8, 2002, a probation violation warrant was issued alleging that the...
State v. Miller - 7/7/2004
Factual Background
On February 17, 2002, the Appellant was stopped by Officer McBee for traveling sixty-three miles per hour in a thirty-mile an hour zone in the city of Cowan. The officer requested the Appellant's driver...
State v. Bryan - 7/7/2004
Factual Background
On September 7, 2002, at approximately 7:00 p.m., Officer Tim Fox of the Shelbyville Police Department received a call that a vehicle was blocking the intersection of Cedar Bluff and Cedar River Roads. Upon...
State v. Muncey - 7/2/2004
This case relates to the defendant's possessing marijuana, cocaine, and Alprazolam on February 7, 2001. Little is known about the facts of this case because the trial transcript has not been included in the appellate record. However,...
State v. Frazier - 6/29/2004
I. Facts
This case arises from a one-car accident that occurred on the afternoon of June 26, 2002, in which the victim, Bobby F. Franks, died. When rescuers responded to the accident near U.S. Highway 64 in Hardin County, they...
State v. Varner - 6/28/2004
The Defendant was stopped during a roadblock conducted by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department on the night of September 1, 2000. As a result of this stop, the Defendant was arrested for driving under the influence. The Defendant...
State v. Thompson - 6/23/2004
I. Factual Background
On Friday, June 13, 1997, the victim's boyfriend, Mark Erickson, drove the victim to the home of her friend, Donna Preston in Nashville. The victim planned to spend the weekend with Preston while Erickson...
State v. Taylor - 6/21/2004
Officer Jason Heatherly of the Jacksboro Police Department testified that between 12:00 and 12:15 a.m. on June 20, 2002, while on duty, he was stopped at a traffic light facing the Eagle Market when he observed the defendant driving...
State v. Susman - 6/18/2004
On January 11, 2002, Officer Nicholas Allen of the Chattanooga Police Deprtament was on patrol. At about 1:48 a.m., Officer Allen stopped a vehicle that was traveling in front of the Defendant. The Defendant also stopped his vehicle...
State v. Nard - 6/17/2004
The defendant, Hubert E. Nard, was indicted for driving under the influence (DUI), violation of implied consent, reckless driving, and disorderly conduct. The defendant was tried on the DUI and disorderly conduct charges, and a jury...
State v. Laster - 6/15/2004
I. Factual Background
The following facts were gleaned from the presentence report and the State's recitation of the facts at the guilty plea hearing. In August 2002, the appellant was employed at Wallace Mitsubishi in Bristol,...
State v. Staples - 6/14/2004
Factual Background
In May of 2001, the appellant lived in Apartment 10 at the South Point Apartments in Winchester, Tennessee. A man by the name of Phillip P.M. Smith had been "hanging out" at his apartment for about a week. ...
State v. Jones - 6/4/2004
This case relates to the defendant's stealing money from her employer, Hayes Small Engine, Inc. ("Hayes"), in July and August 2002. The defendant requested pretrial diversion, and the trial court ordered the Tennessee Board of...
Hartsell v. State - 5/28/2004
According to his petition and his brief on appeal, the petitioner was convicted pursuant to guilty pleas of three counts of felony driving under the influence of an intoxicant and two counts of failure to appear in court. On May 12,...
State v. Rich - 5/28/2004
Factual Background
After completing a contract in California, the Appellant, a sixty-two year old commercial air-conditioning engineer, began driving back to his home in Tennessee. After spending the night of April 11th in...
State v. Wilson - 5/26/2004
This case relates to the death of David Vestal at Steele's Creek Park on April 5, 1999. Rocky Smith testified that he was jogging at Steele's Creek Park on April 5 at about 8:00 a.m. when he saw the victim's body beside the trail at...
State v. Stewart - 5/24/2004
The defendants, Danny Avery Stewart and Dorothy Ann Stewart, were indicted by Davidson County Grand Juries on numerous charges. In case number 2000-A-431, Danny Avery Stewart was charged with three counts of selling a controlled...
State v. McCulloch - 5/18/2004
FACTS
The defendant was indicted for driving on a revoked license, DUI, and DUI, third offense. He subsequently filed a motion to suppress the evidence seized as a result of his roadblock stop, alleging that the stop "was...
State v. Hazeltine - 5/17/2004
I. Facts
This case arises from an incident that occurred during the early morning hours of November 3, 2002, in the parking lot of a bar located in Marshall County. The Defendant, angry from altercations in the bar and the...
Bartlett v. State - 5/13/2004
I. Factual Background
On November 2, 1990, the petitioner pled guilty in the Moore County Circuit Court to two counts of aggravated burglary. He received a four-year sentence on each count, which sentences were to be served...
State v. Messer - 5/11/2004
On October 24, 1998, the defendant entered a Chili's restaurant in Rutherford County where he had been previously employed. He approached the counter and asked the victim, Jodi Lynn Cheatham, who was working at the cash register, for...
State v. Rowland - 5/11/2004
Factual Background
The police officer testified that he observed the Defendant run a red light. The Defendant testified that the light changed from green to yellow as he proceeded under the light. After the stop, the Defendant...
State v. Davis - 5/11/2004
This case relates to the defendant's being arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) and driving on a suspended license on December 2, 2001. Driver Bail Bonds underwrote a $1,750 appearance bond for the defendant. According to...
State v. Vance - 5/10/2004
FACTS
Officer Jeb Johnston of the Nashville Metro Police Department testified that on July 12, 2002, he clocked the defendant traveling forty-four miles per hour in a thirty-mile-per-hour speed zone in downtown Nashville. When...
State v. York - 5/3/2004
FACTS
At the defendant's initial sentencing hearing held on September 3, 2002, the State related what its proof would have been had the case gone to trial:
n the date of the offense, August 31, 2001, [the defendant] was...
State v. Collins - 5/3/2004
The defendant, Patrick D. Collins, was charged in a two-count indictment for driving under the influence, second offense, and for violation of the implied consent law. The defendant, prior to trial, filed a motion in limine seeking...
State v. Byington - 4/30/2004
Officer Eric Alford, a patrol officer with the Kingsport Police Department, testified that on June 15, 2001, while traveling on East Stone Drive in Kingsport, Tennessee, he observed the defendant drive his pickup truck across the...
State v. Simonton - 4/28/2004
Factual Background
On November 16, 2001, Tennessee State Trooper Gene Franks was on patrol in Tipton County. Around 11:45 p.m., he was traveling southbound on Highway 51, north of Covington, when he approached a white Mercury...
[W] State v. Davis In re Driver - 4/26/2004
This case relates to the defendant's being arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) and driving on a suspended license on December 2, 2001. Driver Bail Bonds underwrote a $1,750 appearance bond for the defendant. According to...
State v. Stalcup - 4/23/2004
This case relates to a car wreck that resulted in Melba Shoffner's death. At the guilty plea hearing, the state relied on evidence presented at an earlier pretrial hearing. A transcript of the pretrial hearing reveals that on July 1,...
State v. Prince - 4/21/2004
FACTS
Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy Todd Hindman testified that on February 25, 2001, at approximately 1:45 a.m., he observed the defendant, driving a Chevrolet Camaro, pull into the parking lot of Woods Country Mall off...
State v. Nuridden - 4/20/2004
I. Factual Background
On March 13, 2002, the Hamilton County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging the appellant with possession of .5 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver, driving on a revoked...
State v. Maines - 4/16/2004
I. Factual Background
The appellant's guilty plea was based upon the following facts as recited by the State at the guilty plea hearing. On March 30, 2002, Kingsport Police Officer Matt Cousins stopped the appellant's vehicle...
State v. Davis - 4/14/2004
I. Factual Background
The appellant's convictions stem from an altercation with his girlfriend in the early morning hours of March 24, 2001. Around 10:00 p.m. on March 23, after purchasing various alcoholic beverages, the...
State v. Bush - 4/14/2004
This case relates to five men breaking into the home of Pascual Lopez-Blacos ("Mr. Lopez"), demanding money from him, and shooting him in the leg. Mr. Lopez testified that he was from Mexico, that he had been in the United States for...
State v. Orr - 4/13/2004
This case relates to the defendant, Paul E. Orr, Jr., being stopped and arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) on December 16, 2000. Little is known about the facts of this case because a transcript or audiotape of the...
State v. Hawkins - 4/6/2004
Factual Background
The following facts were recited by the prosecutor at the guilty plea hearing. The Appellant was operating a vehicle in Wilson County when she struck the "rear trailer tire" of a "tractor-trailer truck" as...
State v. Bowman - 4/6/2004
During the evening hours of February 11, 2003, Jennifer Anderson, a drive-thru employee at a Taco Bell in Cookeville, received a number of harassing telephone calls while at work from a man who identified himself as "Russ." According...
State v. Phillips - 4/5/2004
Shortly after midnight on September 1, 2001, Lake City patrolman Todd Johnston saw a Toyota sedan make a right turn off of Highway 441 onto Cobb Hollow Road. During the course of the turn, the vehicle was driven across each of the...
State v. Sandidge - 4/1/2004
FACTS
At the submission hearing, the State announced the stipulated facts:
n August the 17th, 2001, in Sullivan County, Tennessee, at approximately 11:57 p.m., Officer David P. Quillen, with the Kingsport Police...
State v. Tomlin - 3/30/2004
At about 8:30 on the morning of November 2, 2000, Alice Means left her house in Franklin to go work in the store she and her husband owned. Her husband, Fred Means, had already left the house. Between 11:00 and 11:15 that morning,...
State v. Lynn - 3/30/2004
Factual Background
At the outset, we are compelled to note the incomplete nature of the record before this Court on appeal. From the record, we have ascertained that the appellant was convicted of second offense driving under...
State v. Moore - 3/30/2004
The record in this case is sparse and very confusing. We do garner the following from the record. The District Public Defender was appointed by the general sessions court to represent the defendant on the charge of driving under the...
Reid v. State - 3/29/2004
I. Factual Background
This Court summarized the underlying facts of the Petitioner's case on direct appeal as follows:
On May 22, 1998, Lebron Hensley, a patrolman for the Cleveland Police Department, received a report...
Booker v. State - 3/24/2004
The petitioner, Thomas Brandon Booker, appeals the Hardin County Circuit Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief in which he alleged (1) ineffective assistance of counsel, and (2) due process violations as to the...
State v. Deck - 3/24/2004
I. Facts
In this case, the Defendant appeals his DUI conviction and states that, since he is "not pursuing any issues that require an examination of the facts involving the evidence itself," he "has not prepared a transcript of...
State v. Maples - 3/19/2004
This case relates to the defendant's conduct toward Benita Cotte and Jeffrey McKee on December 5, 2001. Jason Nance, a detective for the Blount County Sheriff's Department at the time of the incident, testified that at 8:00 a.m. on...
Davis v. State - 3/18/2004
Factual Background
On May 4, 2002, Benton County Deputy Jeffrey Lynn Arnold was traveling on Eva Road in Benton County, when he observed a 1983 Cadillac traveling in the opposite direction "off the shoulder of the road." After...
State v. Campbell - 3/15/2004
I. Facts
This case involves the death of eighty-two year old William Satterfield, whose body was found in the basement of his east Nashville home on July 17, 2000, after intruders bound his hands and ankles with a telephone...
State v. Hatfield - 3/11/2004
BACKGROUND
On February 9, 1999, the defendant, Wilmore Hatfield, after receiving his income tax refund, purchased two six-packs of beer. He then drove to Obe Delk's meat-packaging business just before dark. As the defendant...
State v. Billingsley - 3/4/2004
I. Facts
In case number 926, the Moore County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant on charges of: (1) driving a motor vehicle and/or being in physical control of a motor vehicle after being declared an habitual offender; (2)...
State v. Pendergrass - 3/3/2004
Following a jury trial, the defendant, William D. Pendergrass, was convicted of third offense driving under the influence (DUI), a Class A misdemeanor, and driving on a revoked license, a Class B misdemeanor. He was sentenced to...
State v. Williams - 3/1/2004
I. Background
On the evening of October 10, 1997, Dramell Brockington, Sandie Johnson, and Defendant were gathered at Ms. Brockington's house. Ms. Brockington testified that she had dated Defendant for about two months, but the...
Lamarr v. City of Memphis - 2/27/2004
Facts and Procedural History
On the night of July 13, 2000, Antoine LaMarr ("Plaintiff"), an officer with the Memphis Police Department, was involved in an alcohol-related single vehicle accident while off-duty. Officers...
State v. Nevils - 2/26/2004
The defendant, Leroy Nevils, was convicted of DUI, following a jury trial. The defendant waived his right to have a jury decide whether it was a second offense for sentencing purposes. The court sentenced the defendant as a DUI...
Allen v. State - 2/25/2004
I. Facts
The transcript of the guilty plea, which is included in the record presently before us, reveals that the Petitioner pled guilty to several offenses. In that transcript, the assistant district attorney stated:
...
State v. Clark - 2/19/2004
I. Factual Background
This case involves the arrest of the Defendant, Terry Clark, for DUI by a police officer in Dickson and the subsequent kicking of the officer by the Defendant in the booking room at the police station. We...
State v. Harold - 2/19/2004
On June 26, 2002, the victim, Heather Harold, who was the defendant's estranged wife, was driving the defendant to his residence. As they passed the residence of the defendant's mother, located only one hundred yards from their...
State v. Profitt - 2/17/2004
The Knox County Grand Jury returned an eleven-count indictment of the defendant, Thomas Len Profitt, Alias. He was charged with two alternative counts of vehicular homicide, at least two prior convictions for driving under the...
State v. Osborne - 2/13/2004
Factual Background
On December 24, 2001, at around 1:20 a.m., Deputy Rose Perrie of the Williamson County Sheriff's Department was on routine patrol at the intersection of Lewisburg Pike and Goose Creek By-Pass when she noticed...
State v. Murphy - 2/11/2004
This case relates to the defendant's truck crashing into Karen Seiler's motorcycle on March 24, 2002. At the sentencing hearing, the victim testified that she was riding her motorcycle with some friends and was hit by the defendant's...
State v. Richard - 2/5/2004
I. Facts
This case involves an incident between the drivers of two automobiles during which the Defendant broke the victim's windshield. The Tipton County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant on two counts of aggravated assault...
State v. Bradley - 2/5/2004
FACTS
The convictions in this case stem from three separate indictments issued by the Hamilton County Grand Jury against the defendant, Alfred Eugene Bradley, in which he was charged with the May 23, 2000, theft of property...
State v. Herbert - 2/4/2004
Factual Background
On March 8, 2001, Nashville and Davidson County Metropolitan Police Officer Jeb Johnston stopped the appellant while in downtown Nashville because of the improper display of his temporary license tag and...
State v. Walls - 1/30/2004
Mary Jean Hall, an assistant manager at SunTrust Bank, testified that Glennia Fay Walls and Dennis Walls held a joint checking account entitled "Glennia Fay Walls or Dennis Walls." Both parties were authorized signatories on the...
State v. Johnson - 1/29/2004
On December 12, 2001, Officer Brian Rich of the Savannah Police Department, responded to a dispatch concerning a disturbance at the defendant's residence on Fairgrounds Road in Savannah. Officer Rich stated that upon his arrival, the...
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