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. Wolfe - 9/9/2003
I. Procedural Background
The Hawkins County Grand Jury indicted the Defendants, Lee Ann Wolfe and Edward Barnett, for the following offenses: (1) possession of .5 grams or more of a substance containing cocaine, a Schedule II...
State v. Humphries - 9/9/2003
On May 6, 1991, Defendant was indicted for theft of property, a Class D felony, in case 44241. Defendant was later indicted for two additional counts of theft, on May 18, 1993, in case 51652, and on June 1, 1993, in case 51824. On...
State v. Tait - 9/8/2003
I. Facts and Procedural History
The underlying facts of this case are undisputed. On July 11, 1999, the appellant, Robert Tait, was arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. The warrant stated: "To any lawful...
State v. Cloer - 9/4/2003
I. Facts
This case arises from a tragic set of circumstances. The Defendant, Rhonda Cloer, was driving a school bus in Polk County when it collided with a freight train, killing three children and seriously injuring four...
State v. Bellamy - 9/3/2003
This case relates to the defendant's driving under the influence on November 6, 2000. At the guilty plea hearing, the state presented the following factual account of the crimes: On the night of November 6, Kingsport Police Officer...
State v. Bullion - 8/27/2003
I. Factual Background
The appellant's guilty pleas were based upon the following facts as recited by the State at the guilty plea hearing. On May 3, 2002, a state trooper stopped the appellant's vehicle after observing the...
State v. Leach - 8/25/2003
The proof at the guilt phase of this trial demonstrated that on July 8, 1999, the defendant murdered Jean Poteet and murdered and raped Sarah McBride in Ms. McBride's home in Nashville on Haywood Lane. Sarah McBride was a...
State v. Higley - 8/18/2003
I. Facts
This case involves a multi-car traffic accident that occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m. on April 10, 1999, on Highway 153 in Hamilton County. Several witnesses testified that the Defendant was responsible for the...
State v. Perkey - 8/12/2003
Factual Background
At the defendant's plea submission hearing, the defendant stipulated to the following facts in support of his conviction. On April 22, 2001, the defendant, who had been drinking two to three beers per hour...
State v. Blackhurst - 8/12/2003
1. Procedural Background
Defendant's convictions arose out of an automobile accident on December 5, 1998. That evening, Defendant exited the interstate and struck the victims' car causing serious bodily injury to the three...
State v. Forrest - 8/11/2003
Officer Shawn Taylor of the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department testified that on September 5, 2001, at approximately 2:00 a.m., he observed the defendant drive her vehicle around a curve and strike a stone wall next to the...
State v. Davis - 8/8/2003
Officer Joe Warren of the Chattanooga Police Department testified that he was operating a stationary radar on Interstate 75 on the evening of July 12, 2000. At around 11:15 p.m., he observed Defendant's vehicle traveling sixty-seven...
State v. Flake - 8/5/2003
Facts
As stated, the primary issue in this appeal is whether the jury erroneously rejected the insanity defense. In determining a defendant's sanity, jurors may consider the facts surrounding the crime as well as the testimony...
State v. Grooms - 8/1/2003
Background
On November 21, 2001, Penny Boyd and her two sons were traveling on King Street in Morristown, Tennessee. The appellant's car was traveling on East First North. Ms. Boyd stopped her Isuzu Rodeo at the intersection of...
State v. Vaughn - 8/1/2003
On September 7, 2001, ten-year-old A.V. and her sister spent the night with the defendant's stepchildren. The proof indicated A.V.'s family lived next door, and A.V. and the defendant's ten-year-old stepdaughter, L.O., were best...
State v. Franks - 7/29/2003
On December 29, 1997, the defendant burglarized the residences of James Bridges and Gordon England in Hardin County. The record indicates that the defendant admitted to having stolen checks from the Bridges residence and cash from...
State v. Gregory - 7/29/2003
This case relates to the defendant's being stopped for DUI. During a bench trial, Corporal Daniel Okert of the Goodlettsville Police Department testified that about 9:15 p.m. on September 20, 2000, he was on patrol and responded to a...
State v. Jones - 7/29/2003
Factual Background
In the early morning hours of December 9, 2000, the Appellant was involved in an automobile accident, which claimed the life of Angie Adams. The Appellant and a third passenger, Joseph Adams, were also...
State v. Cofer - 7/25/2003
At approximately 2:15 a.m. on March 12, 2001, Trooper Tim Scott was dispatched to the scene of a single-vehicle accident on Carlins Road in Hardeman County. When he arrived some thirty-five minutes after the accident, he observed...
State v. Huntsman - 7/25/2003
In the early morning hours of November 14, 2000, the victim, Clayton Hicks, Jr., was shot and killed in Memphis. On the night before, the defendant and the victim, who was a police officer, were guests at the residence of Darrell...
State v. Stratton - 7/22/2003
At the September 23, 2002, sentencing hearing, Defendant testified that on the date of the offense, he got off work at approximately 12:00 noon and went to the Party Pub, where he played cards and drank alcohol. He left the Party Pub...
State v. Snow - 7/15/2003
Background
On the afternoon of March 24, 2000, Deputy Mike Moore of the Roane County Sheriff's Department went to the Midtown Motel in Roane County to serve an order of protection on the defendant, Scott E. Snow. When Deputy...
State v. Puckett - 7/9/2003
On the night of April 29, 2001, a police officer stopped the defendant after he observed her driving for approximately one minute. She was charged with DUI as a result of the stop. The defendant presented a motion challenging the...
State v. Clayton - 7/3/2003
I. Factual Background
Shortly after midnight on April 12, 2000, the appellant, a criminal defense attorney and former police officer, was stopped for speeding by Officer Robert Conley with the Metropolitan Nashville Police...
State v. Willis - 6/30/2003
Jamie Marable was last seen in the early morning hours of September 9, 1990, with friends, including the defendant, Leslie Brian Willis, at the Golden Jukebox bar in Clarksville, Tennessee. Three days later, her body was found near...
State v. Truman - 6/27/2003
Following an October 31, 2002 bench trial, the trial court convicted the defendant of driving while intoxicated on the evening of June 8, 2001, and imposed the above noted sentence. It also ordered that he pay a $500 fine, be...
State v. Cook - 6/27/2003
In early 2002, Officer Matt Woods of the Obion County Sheriff's Department, Kent Treece, and Shawn Palmer, all of whom were members of the Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Drug Task Force, had found evidence of methamphetamine...
State v. Butler - 6/24/2003
OPINION
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Shortly before midnight on March 18, 2000, Madison County Deputy Dan Owen was off duty and working as a security guard at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jackson, Tennessee when a customer informed...
State v. Whytsell - 6/18/2003
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
A. Trial
Officer Michael McElrath of the Chattanooga Airport Police testified that he was on duty during the early morning hours of January 14, 2000. He stated that around 3:00 a.m., he was driving...
State v. Yancy - 6/13/2003
The evidence considered by the district attorney general, as summarized by the Tennessee Supreme Court in State v. Yancey, 69 S.W.3d 553 (Tenn. 2002), is as follows:
On January 29, 1999, Teresa Lovett was driving a Pontiac...
State v. Orey - 6/13/2003
FACTS
Officer Kim Barker, of the McKenzie Police Department, testified that on June 29, 2001, at approximately 7:30 p.m., he was "running radar" in an area with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour, and saw the defendant driving...
State v. Robinson - 6/10/2003
The Defendant was charged in a seven-count indictment with (1) possession of over .5 grams of cocaine with the intent to sell; (2) possession of over .5 grams of cocaine with intent to deliver; (3) possession of drug paraphernalia;...
State v. Dean - 6/10/2003
The defendant's conviction for sexual battery arose out of events which occurred on February 18, 2002, between the defendant and the victim, R.E., a thirteen-year-old female. Gloria Easley, the victim's mother, testified she and the...
State - 6/9/2003
The Trial Court terminated appellant's parental rights to REB . The issue on appeal, as stated by appellant is:
Whether the Trial Court erred by relying on a statute that has been declared unconstitutional to terminate the...
State v. Foster - 6/4/2003
I. Factual Background
The State's proof at the sentencing hearing revealed that on seven occasions the appellant made telephone calls to various pharmacies in the Bristol area. The appellant claimed that she was calling from a...
State v. Conner - 6/4/2003
The defendant entered a guilty plea to simple robbery for "snatching" a purse from Marguerite White, an eighty-year-old woman, on March 6, 2001. The trial court sentenced the defendant to three years' incarceration as a Range I...
State v. Speer - 6/4/2003
I. Factual Background
At trial, Memphis Police Officer Tom Stanley testified that on November 6, 1999, he was called to the scene of a one-vehicle accident on White Station Road. He explained that at the point where the...
State v. Perry - 6/4/2003
The defendant, Mark Perry, confessed to killing the victim, Clint Finley, by striking him in the head with an axe. In his confession, the defendant maintained the killing was the result of a violent argument in which the victim...
State v. Hollars - 5/21/2003
On December 17, 2001, the defendant pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, both Class A misdemeanors, and received consecutive sentences of eleven months and...
State v. Whaley - 5/21/2003
I. Factual Background
The appellant was indicted by the Hamilton County Grand Jury on one count of DUI and one count of assault based upon the events of December 9, 1998. At trial, Officer Gary Martin of the Chattanooga Police...
State v. Keathly - 5/21/2003
Factual Background
On November 18, 2000, at 4:30 p.m., the Appellant was traveling on Highway 70 from his primary residence in Brentwood to his farm in Sparta. At the same time, the victim, Gary Herron, was traveling toward...
State v. Smythers - 5/19/2003
On August 4, 1998, the Monroe County Grand Jury charged the Defendant, Robert F. Smythers, and his son, Robert J. Smythers, with the first degree premeditated murder of Robert C. Hill. Following a jury trial, conducted in March 1999,...
State v. Quintanilla - 5/16/2003
The proof offered by the state established that during the early morning hours of March 22, 2001, the defendant was involved in a single-vehicle accident. When police arrived at the scene, they found no driver. Shortly thereafter, a...
State v. Daughtry - 5/16/2003
During the early morning hours of October 15, 1999, while on patrol on Havana Road in Shelby County, Officer Darren Boyce observed the defendant "passed out" behind the wheel of a black pickup truck. Officer Boyce testified the...
State v. Whittington - 5/16/2003
At the sentencing hearing, Defendant testified that he was living with his girlfriend, her four children, and her father. He was employed as a roofer. He was the only person in his household who earned an income. He also testified...
State v. Jenkins - 5/15/2003
The Defendant's convictions arose out of a car accident caused by his traveling at too high a speed, during which the Defendant's vehicle struck another vehicle. One of the passengers in the other vehicle was pregnant and lost the...
Friedman v. Brown - 5/14/2003
In this action against a trial judge, the Trial Court dismissed the action on the grounds of judicial immunity, holding "the bar of judicial immunity is not absolute, but the recognized exceptions are inapplicable herein, since Judge...
State v. Davis - 5/13/2003
FACTS
Wearing a green trench coat, gloves, a "Yogi Bear" mask, and armed with a loaded pistol, the defendant robbed the East Food Center in Hickman County on November 2, 2001. He gave the store clerks a pillowcase to put the...
State v. Ward - 5/12/2003
The Defendant argues that the trial court erred by ruling that the prosecution did not abuse its discretion by denying her pretrial diversion. Pretrial diversion allows the district attorney general to suspend prosecution for a...
Edwards v. State - 5/5/2003
Byron M. Edwards was convicted by a Blount County jury of aggravated robbery, reckless endangerment, and driving under the influence. Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-103, -402, (1997), 55-10-401 (1993). The convictions stem from a brutal...
Downen v. Testa - 5/1/2003
In this wrongful death action, the Trial Court granted defendants summary judgment, and plaintiffs have appealed.
BACKGROUND
This action arises from a motor vehicle accident that occurred on May 21, 2000, wherein Adam...
State v. Whitlock - 4/29/2003
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The following evidence was presented at the Defendant's sentencing hearing. Anita Faye Bivens, the victim in this case, testified as follows:
It was . . . late one night and my nephew and them was...
State v. Pennell - 4/28/2003
Assigned on Briefs October 1, 2002
The defendant was found in criminal contempt of court for violating a court order by operating a motor vehicle after his driving privileges had been lost for one year, and received a ten-day...
State v. Degrafenreid - 4/23/2003
On the evening of September 4, 2000, Deputy John Cochran of the Tipton County Sheriff's Department was on patrol in a marked car. Deputy Cochran noticed a blue pickup in front of him on Highway 59. Deputy Cochran testified that the...
State v. Chambers - 4/22/2003
FACTS
Carol Mathis, a dispatcher for the Stewart County Sheriff's Department, testified that she received a 9-1-1 call from the defendant, Wendell Clarke Chambers, at 10:44 p.m. on August 17, 2000, the defendant stating, in...
State v. Blankenship - 4/17/2003
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
A. Facts Presented at Trial
Edward Hillian testified that at approximately 11:00 p.m. on October 2, 1999, he and his wife, Paula Shaunte Hillian, were driving on Highway 27 in Rhea County in a 1996...
Brannan v. State - 4/11/2003
I. Factual Background
At the petitioner's post-conviction hearing, the petitioner testified that he was originally charged with three counts of vehicular assault, Class D felonies, and one count of DUI, fourth offense, a Class...
State v. Nevils - 4/4/2003
Background
In the early morning hours of March 31, 2001, Tennessee State Trooper Richard Cash noticed an orange Corvette crossing the dividing lines on southbound Interstate 65 in Williamson County. He subsequently pulled the...
State v. McAlister - 4/3/2003
The defendant appeals his conviction for DUI - second offense. At the conclusion of his sentencing hearing, the defendant was sentenced to ll months, 29 days. The trial court ordered the defendant to serve 60 days in the county jail...
State v. Arroyo - 3/27/2003
I. Factual Background
At the guilty plea hearing, the parties stipulated to the following facts. On October 31, 2000, the appellant was driving down Henley Street in Knoxville and ran two red lights. As the appellant ran the...
State v. Weems - 3/27/2003
The defendant was indicted on alternative counts of vehicular homicide as the proximate result of conduct creating a substantial risk of death and vehicular homicide by intoxication after an automobile accident on June 25, 1999, in...
State v. Groom - 3/27/2003
The defendant pled guilty to driving under the influence, first offense. The trial court imposed a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days and ordered forty-eight hours to be served in incarceration with the balance served on...
State v. Greve - 3/27/2003
At approximately 1:30 a.m. on August 25, 2000, Officer Todd Royval, a member of the Chattanooga Police Department's DUI unit, was on routine patrol when he observed the defendant driving a black Infiniti automobile northbound on Lee...
State v. Greenwood - 3/21/2003
At 3:34 a.m. on March 9, 2001, Highway Patrolman Richard Cash was working radar on Interstate 65 in Williamson County. He clocked the defendant traveling eighty miles per hour and stopped the vehicle. Upon approaching the defendant,...
State v. Smith - 3/19/2003
I. Factual Background
According to the presentence report, the appellant was declared to be a motor vehicle habitual offender on July 11, 2000. On August 26, 2000, Patrolman Dwayne Marion of the Cowan City Police Department...
State v. Inthavong - 3/19/2003
FACTS
The nineteen-year-old defendant, Phetsamay Inthavong, was indicted on September 12, 2000, for arson, a Class C felony, for the August 19, 2000, burning of the home of her ex-boyfriend's mother and stepfather, Marilyn and...
State v. Slocum - 3/14/2003
The defendant, Dwayne Nelvis Slocum, appeals his effective ten-year community corrections sentence with a requirement of 160 days of jail time after pleading guilty to violating a habitual motor vehicle offender order, driving under...
State v. Wallace - 3/14/2003
ORDER
On August 27, 2001, pursuant to a bench trial, the Circuit Court of Tipton County found the defendant, Raymond N. Wallace, guilty of driving under the influence, second offense. For this offense, he received an effective...
State v. Jones - 3/12/2003
Factual Background
A police officer approached the defendant, who was sitting in a Ranger pick-up truck next to a gas station pay phone at approximately 12:30 a.m. After identifying himself, the officer asked the defendant for...
State v. Harrison - 3/7/2003
Factual Background
On February 16, 2001, the Appellant was stopped on State Highway 840 in Williamson County by Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA") law enforcement officer Kevin Pollard. At the time Pollard, who was returning...
State v. Thomas - 3/4/2003
There is no transcript of the trial court hearing available in the appellate record. In fact, the record on appeal consists of the original petition to have Appellant declared an Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender, the consent order...
State v. Sisson - 3/4/2003
On August 22, 1999, the appellant committed the D.U.I. offense that is the subject of this appeal. At the time of the commission of the offense the appellant had two separate D.U.I. convictions based on guilty pleas entered in court...
State v. Hatfield - 2/26/2003
Factual Background
On February 9, 1999, the Appellant received his income tax check and traveled to the Top of The Mountain Market in Fentress County, where he purchased two six-packs of beer. The Appellant then proceeded to...
State v. Dowell - 2/24/2003
In the early morning hours of October 26, 2001, Deputy Richard Kyle Eller of the Johnson County Sheriff's Department was driving southbound on Highway 421 in Mountain City when he saw the defendant's truck and a second vehicle coming...
State v. Mayrand - 2/19/2003
In February 2000, the Rhea County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant, Mary Jean Mayrand, for driving under the influence (DUI), possession of a Schedule III controlled substance with intent to sell or deliver, possession of a legend...
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