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. Martin - 1/28/2004
This case relates to the defendant's arrest for violating a motor vehicle habitual offender order on July 13, 2001. At the sentencing hearing, the defendant testified that on the day of his arrest, he agreed to pull a float with his...
Morgan v. State - 1/27/2004
I.
Rochelle Copeland Zegilla and her two small children were living with her mother in mid-1997 following a separation from her husband. On Saturday evening, July 26, 1997, she told her mother that she was "going to go out for...
States v. Bowen - 1/23/2004
Pursuant to his plea of guilty, the Defendant was convicted of DUI. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-401(1). We briefly summarize the facts as presented at the Defendant's guilty plea submission hearing. At about 2:30 in the morning on...
State v. Wells - 1/23/2004
A trial court may revoke probation and order the imposition of the original sentence upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the probationer has violated a condition of probation. Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-311(e) (2003)....
State v. White - 1/23/2004
Factual Background
On October 31, 1999, Sergeant Bud Cooper of the Alcoa Police Department, observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed coming north toward him on Wright Road. Sergeant Cooper was forced to steer his...
State v. Crawley - 1/23/2004
On May 19, 2002, at approximately three o'clock in the morning, Officer Jeremy Haywood of the Columbia Police Department was on patrol. He observed the Defendant's vehicle traveling in front of him. The Defendant's car passed a yield...
State v. Hammock - 1/23/2004
A detailed accounting of the facts which ultimately led to Defendant's conviction for second degree murder is found in this Court's opinion in State v. Martin Stuart Hammock, supra. A brief summary of those facts as they pertain to...
State v. Skinner - 1/15/2004
FACTS
On March 10, 2001, Officer Mike Moody and Sergeant Steve Webb of the Rutherford Police Department were conducting an undercover drug operation. Dressed in street clothes, they drove around in a Toyota pickup truck inside...
State v. Cotham - 1/15/2004
On January 3, 2002, between 3:00 and 4:00 A.M., the defendant picked up the victim, Miranda Lynn Owen, at her workplace and took her to his motel room at Motel 6 on Trinity Lane in Nashville so that she would help him "pack his...
State v. Thompson - 1/13/2004
The defendant was indicted for vehicular assault in connection with a February 18, 2001 motor vehicle accident. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-106(a), (b) (2003) (person commits the Class D felony of vehicular assault who, "as the...
Sexton v. State - 1/12/2004
I. "CREDIT FOR TIME AT LIBERTY"
A. Background
On June 26, 2000, the petitioner pled guilty to reckless endangerment, evading arrest, and driving under the influence, fifth offense, all Class E felonies. See Tenn. Code...
State v. Frazier - 1/8/2004
I. Facts
The Defendant was arrested for possession with intent to sell 0.7 grams of a Schedule II drug ("Count 1") and possession with intent to deliver 0.7 grams of a Schedule II drug ("Count 2") on August 3, 2001. See Tenn....
State v. Britt - 12/31/2003
In his first issue, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence. The defendant posits that the witnesses' accounts of this tavern homicide were so diverse and that the witnesses themselves were so intoxicated...
State v. Wilson - 12/31/2003
The defendant's offenses stemmed from an automobile accident that occurred during the early morning hours of September 21, 2000, on Cherokee Road in Washington County. The then eighteen-year-old defendant, driving in the rain and fog...
State v. Daverson - 12/30/2003
On March 15, 2000, Tracy Roberson, a deputy with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department, was working part-time as a private security guard at the Lakeshore Marina in Hixson when he observed the defendant walk unsteadily to his car...
State v. Tuggle - 12/30/2003
I. Factual Background
The appellant was indicted by the Williamson County Grand Jury on one count of forgery, one count of theft of property valued under $500, one count of criminal impersonation, and one count of possession of...
State v. Shorter - 12/30/2003
On April 11, 2002, officers searched the defendant's residence pursuant to a search warrant and discovered 6.3 grams of cocaine in her possession. She entered an "open" guilty plea to possession of .5 grams or more of cocaine with...
State v. Rigsby - 12/29/2003
The record reflects that on July 23, 2001, two Bledsoe County officers answered a disturbance call at the Hideway Lounge, where the bartender reported that the defendant had created the disturbance and had been asked to leave the...
State v. Duty - 12/23/2003
On November 14, 2001, the defendant was charged via presentment with stalking James Martin from January 13, 2001, through July 1, 2001. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-315(a)(1), (b)(1) (2003) (proscribing stalking as a misdemeanor). In...
State v. Chatman - 12/23/2003
Shortly after 11:00 p.m. on May 22, 2001, Metro Police Officer Shawn Taylor, who was assigned to the DUI enforcement unit, observed a vehicle stopped in the middle of the intersection of Gay Street and 11th Avenue in north Nashville....
State v. Newsom - 12/23/2003
Factual Background
At approximately 8:00 p.m. on June 8, 2001, a Tennessee State Trooper and emergency medical personnel responded to the scene of a single-vehicle accident on Simms Springs Road in Bedford County. The...
State v. Jennings - 12/22/2003
FACTS
At the defendant's guilty plea hearing, the State summarized what its proof would have been had this matter proceeded to trial:
he State's proof would have been that in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on January...
State v. Smith - 12/19/2003
Tennessee Valley Authority police officer Henry Eugene Williams III was patrolling the Pickwick Dam area at about ten o'clock p.m. when he noticed a van parked in a public parking lot. Officer Williams explained that this lot was...
State v. Carter - 12/19/2003
BACKGROUND
After months of police surveillance, the defendant, Clarence Carter, and his acquaintance, Reginald Hutchinson, were arrested on November 19, 1998. Prior to the arrest, the investigating officers conducted several...
State v. Crick - 12/18/2003
The defendant, William Edward Crick, entered an open plea of guilty to Possession of Schedule VI controlled substance with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell (a Class E felony), with the length and manner of service to be...
State v. Hobson - 12/18/2003
The defendant was charged with sexually abusing his girlfriend's niece and his girlfriend's two granddaughters. L. M., who was fifteen years old at the March 2002 trial, testified that Annie Harvey was her aunt and that the defendant...
State v. Lewis - 12/16/2003
According to the summary of the evidence presented by the State at the plea submission hearing, the victim, Robin Forrest, was shot once in the chest with a nine-millimeter gun and died a short time later from that wound. The bullet...
Biscan v. Brown - 12/15/2003
In this appeal, the defendants appeal a judgment entered after a jury verdict awarding damages to Jennifer Biscan and her father, Robert Biscan, for serious brain injuries Jennifer incurred in an automobile accident, which injuries...
State v. Orr - 12/13/2003
This case relates to the defendant's arrest on April 4, 2000, for DUI and driving on a revoked license. Although no record exists from the defendant's trial, the parties stipulated that the following evidence was presented at the...
State v. Norvell - 12/12/2003
Officer Edwin Krenk of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (Metro Police) testified that on June 1, 2001, at about 2:20 a.m., he saw the defendant drive through the intersection of Broadway and Eighth Avenue with no...
Crim v. State - 12/12/2003
On November 21, 1997, the petitioner was tried and convicted of possession of more than .5 grams of cocaine with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a school, a Class A felony; possession of less than one-half ounce of marijuana, a...
State v. Mellinger - 12/10/2003
I. Factual Background
On June 13, 2000, the Wilson County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging the appellant with two counts of vehicular assault. At trial, Chisa Tipton, who was sixteen at the time of the offense,...
State v. Ray - 12/8/2003
The defendant, Morgan L. Ray, pled guilty to driving while under the status of a habitual motor offender (Class E felony); two counts of driving under the influence, seventh offense (Class E felony); two counts of driving on a...
State v. Curry - 12/8/2003
A cursory review of the facts adduced at trial will be helpful to an understanding of our review of the Appellant's case. On April 7, 2001, the Appellant celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday. At around 3:00 that morning, police...
State v. Keith - 12/5/2003
On April 23, 2001, Defendant pled guilty to theft of property over $1,000, a Class D felony, and the Williamson County Circuit Court sentenced her as a Range I, standard offender to four years, which were suspended. Defendant was...
State v. Mitts - 12/5/2003
This case is before us on the State's petition for writ of certiorari. The State asserts that the trial court erred: (1) by granting pre-trial jail credit and applying time served on an unrelated community corrections violation to...
State v. Blair - 12/5/2003
This case arises from the defendant's plea of no contest to the charge of selling methamphetamine on March 23, 2001. Because the defendant failed to include the guilty plea hearing transcript in the record on appeal, we know nothing...
State v. McKenzie - 12/3/2003
FACTS
On February 19, 2001, the defendant was arrested for DUI and violation of the open container law, with the charges being bound over to the grand jury following a preliminary hearing and the defendant's later being...
State v. Gailes - 12/3/2003
The defendant was arrested on March 19, 2000, and charged with DUI-fourth offense, a Class E felony. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-403(a)(1). The indictment alleged he had three prior convictions for driving under the influence, one on...
Jones v. State - 12/1/2003
This case relates to crimes the petitioner committed against his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and wife on June 29, 1997. The record reflects that the petitioner pled guilty to attempted second degree murder, a Class B felony, and...
State v. Wakefield - 11/25/2003
The Defendant was placed on community corrections on August 2, 2001. The petition to revoke his community corrections status was filed on November 7, 2001. The Defendant admitted that the last time he reported to his probation...
State v. Ewerling - 11/20/2003
Factual Background
On December 12, 2001, the Appellant was indicted by a Davidson County grand jury for DUI and violation of the implied consent law. Following a jury trial, the Appellant was found guilty of DUI and sentenced...
State v. Guffy - 11/19/2003
I. Factual Background
At the suppression hearing, Soddy-Daisy Police Officer Jerry Workman testified that in the early morning hours of January 1, 2001, he was on "DUI patrol." He testified that he parked his patrol car on the...
State v. Talley - 11/17/2003
The Gibson County Grand Jury indicted the defendant, Thomas Anthony Talley, on charges of driving under the influence, driving under the influence with three prior convictions for driving under the influence, violation of the open...
State v. Lyons - 11/14/2003
In 1995, the Defendant pled guilty to three counts of selling cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver. As a result of the plea, the Defendant agreed to a community corrections sentence of 12...
State v. Gassaway - 11/13/2003
FACTS
On May 22, 2000, between the hours of 8:00 and 9:30 a.m., the defendant was driving his pickup truck on Highway 233 near Cumberland City when the truck drifted across the road, struck an embankment, went slightly...
State v. Hedgecoth - 11/12/2003
On the weekend following Friday, April 14, 2001, Richard Jones of Ray Bell Construction discovered that a 743-B Bobcat, valued at $7500, and a set of lifting forks, valued at $350, had been taken from a construction area. Later, the...
State v. Stover - 11/10/2003
FACTS
On January 9, 2001, the Washington County Grand Jury indicted the defendant, Andrew Stover, on one count of the sale of 2.1 grams of cocaine, a Class B felony, and two counts of the sale of marijuana, Class E felonies,...
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation v. State of Tennessee Department of Safety - 11/7/2003
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On February 14, 2002, Ricky D. Stallings was driving a 1999 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck he had leased from the appellee, Toyota Motor Credit Corporation ("TMCC"), when he was stopped by a Knoxville...
State v. Hart - 11/7/2003
I. Facts
This case arises from the death of the victim, Catherine Triplett, after the Defendant's car collided "head-on" with the victim's car on Cold Springs Road in Johnson County on December 16, 1999. The Defendant's minor...
Cloyd v. State - 11/3/2003
On the night of October 8, 1995, a car driven by the petitioner was involved in a head-on collision with a vehicle occupied by the victims, Paul Lehew and Charles Garland. The victims were killed instantly. Officers who investigated...
State v. Anderson - 10/31/2003
On October 20, 2001, the defendant, Gregory L. Anderson, was arrested at a sobriety checkpoint for driving under the influence and violation of the implied consent law. A preliminary hearing was held on January 3, 2002. The case was...
State v. Williams - 10/31/2003
This case arises from the robbery and murder of twenty-two-year-old Theonda Williams on February 16, 1999. The defendant was fourteen years old at the time. Although the defendant and the victim have the same last name, they were not...
State v. Franklin - 10/30/2003
The defendant, an anesthesiologist, was convicted of assault by causing bodily injury to Mary Sue Rowland, an employee of the Ridgelake Ambulatory Center, on July 26, 1999. James Pike, the Clinical Director of the center, testified...
Bills v. Conseco Insurance Co. - 10/28/2003
Facts and Procedural History
Daniel Bills, Jr. ("Bills, Jr."), a minor, was injured when his car struck a telephone pole on September 9, 2000 at approximately 12:44 a.m. Bills, Jr. admitted to drinking five (5) beers inside a...
State v. Cloud - 10/20/2003
This case relates to the defendant's being stopped for speeding in August 2000 and being caught burglarizing a home in November 2000. Although the state did not give a factual account of the crimes at the guilty plea hearing, the...
State v. Pettibone - 10/17/2003
Factual Background
The appellant was indicted by the Davidson County Grand Jury for attempted aggravated robbery, which occurred on March 6, 2002. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the appellant pled guilty to attempted aggravated...
State v. Inman - 10/17/2003
I. Factual Background
The appellant was indicted by a Williamson County Grand Jury on charges of possession of over .5 grams of cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver, possession of Alprazolam with the intent to sell or...
State v. Franks - 10/14/2003
This case involves the rape of a child in December 2001. The victim, N.R., who was eight years old at the time of trial, testified the defendant came to her family's home to decorate for Christmas and make repairs while her mother,...
State v. Hwang - 10/13/2003
FACTS
On November 29, 2000, the defendant, Jeremy Christopher Hwang, pled guilty in the Hamilton County Criminal Court to aggravated burglary, theft of property, DUI first offense, possession of burglary tools, and underage...
State v. Ogle - 10/13/2003
I. Factual Background
The record before this court does not include a transcript of the guilty plea hearing. The following facts are gleaned from the presentence report:
On [October 2, 2002,] warrants were served on...
State v. Palmquist - 10/13/2003
The certified question of law is set forth in an order signed by the trial court and approved for entry by Defendant's counsel and the Assistant District Attorney General. The order states in pertinent part that the issue is: ...
State v. Thompson - 10/13/2003
The procedural history of this case follows a circuitous path which ends at the quagmire of criminal jurisprudence in Tennessee - the inappropriate utilization of Tenn. R. Crim. P. 37(b)(2)(i), appeal from a guilty plea, reserving a...
State v. Scott - 10/9/2003
Shortly after noon on February 13, 2000, Debra Shannon heard a "wild booming crash" outside of her Deerlodge residence. Upon investigation, she observed that a car driven by the defendant had crashed into a tree. The airbag had...
State v. Smith - 10/8/2003
On October 15, 2001, at approximately 8:00 A.M., Freeman Jones Weems, III, a customer at Jerry's Quick Stop in Munford, observed the defendant stumble twice on his way into the market. According to Weems, once inside the market, the...
State v. Hurd - 10/8/2003
Bristol (Tennessee) Police Officer Danny Farmer testified at trial that on July 4, 1998, at 4:15 a.m., the police dispatcher informed him that a driver of a Pontiac Sunbird had reported erratic driving involving a Chevrolet Cavalier....
State v. Garcia - 10/1/2003
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
At approximately 10:50 p.m. on May 9, 1999, the defendant, Gonzalo M. Garcia, was stopped in his vehicle by Officer Deborah Kohl of the Metropolitan Nashville ("Metro") Police Department while driving on...
Burroughs v. Magee - 10/1/2003
The complaint alleges that at approximately 7:00 p.m. on July 31, 1997, Roger E. Hostetler ran a stop sign and that his truck collided with a car driven by Harold L. Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs' wife, Judy C. Burroughs (the plaintiff),...
State v. Standridge - 9/30/2003
I. Factual Background
The appellant was indicted by the White County Grand Jury on charges of theft of property valued under $500 and resisting arrest. A trial on those charges was held on September 17, 2001. At trial, Sandra...
State v. Beckham - 9/29/2003
The defendant was convicted of aggravated assault for pointing a shotgun at Jamie Davis on August 31, 2001. Mr. Davis testified that as he was driving out of the parking lot of the Oil Express, located near K&M;Market in Hardin...
State v. Mitts - 9/22/2003
This case is before us on the State's petition for writ of certiorari. The State asserts that the trial court erred: (1) by granting pre-trial jail credit and applying time served on an unrelated community corrections violation to...
State v. Haney - 9/19/2003
I. Factual Background
On March 12, 2001, the appellants, Branden Haney and Lawrence Davis, and co-defendant, Justin Carter, were indicted on various drug-related offenses. The appellants filed pretrial motions to suppress...
State v. Rice - 9/18/2003
The Defendant's guilty pleas resulted from a single incident which occurred on November 11, 2001. The trial court sentenced the Defendant to ten years for the cocaine conviction, two years for the marijuana conviction, thirty days...
State v. Smith - 9/11/2003
I. Facts and Procedural History
The Defendant, Charles Wade Smith, III, was indicted by a Perry County Grand Jury on one count of violating Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-13-210, Second Degree Murder, a class A felony. The...
State v. Gibson - 9/9/2003
I. Facts
On the evening of July 15, 2000, Chris Melacon was returning to Pigeon Forge from a trip to Gatlinburg by way of a two-lane bypass. While on the bypass, the Defendant, Rex A. Gibson, who was driving a gold Jaguar,...
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