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. Richenberger - 2/12/2003
The indictment alleged that on March 20, 2001, the defendant, while under the influence of an intoxicant, operated a motor vehicle on a public highway in Shelby County. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-401 (1998). The indictment also...
Blackwell v. State - 2/12/2003
I. Factual Background
A jury in the Madison County Circuit Court found the petitioner guilty of the second degree murder of Craig Williams. Williams' death resulted from a fight between the two men at the Planet Rock bar. On...
State v. Parchman - 2/12/2003
I. Factual Background
John C. Dunlap was stopped by officers with the Union City Police Department for driving under the influence and possession of drug paraphernalia. In order to avoid being charged with these offenses,...
State v. Shelton - 2/12/2003
FACTS
The defendant was declared to be a motor vehicle habitual offender on November 9, 1990; and, on January 25, 2001, he was ticketed after running a red light with the vehicle he was operating. Subsequently, he was indicted...
State v. Monday - 2/12/2003
I. Factual Background
In the early morning hours of September 30, 1996, Officer Larry Murrell of the Knoxville Police Department received a call regarding "a lady lying on the floor of the fourth floor" of the Parkway Hotel on...
State v. Releford - 2/3/2003
This case arises from officers of the Kingsport Police Department executing a search warrant at the defendant's house on May 31, 2000. At the guilty plea hearing, the parties stipulated that the officers found "baggies" of white...
State v. Haycraft - 1/30/2003
Factual Background
Prior to the trial court's acceptance of the plea, the prosecution essentially stated that on November 18, 2000, a Kingsport police officer had seen the defendant driving on a public road. Recognizing the...
State v. Rhyan - 1/27/2003
This case relates to the defendant's shooting and killing the victim, Kenneth Suiter. Sergeant Larry Colburn of the Memphis Police Department testified that at 6:44 p.m. on December 3, 1998, he was dispatched to the Metro Market...
State v. Elliott - 1/22/2003
Officer Ty Brazier testified that he stopped the Defendant after seeing the Defendant's automobile run a stop sign on the night of December 26,1999. The Defendant was eventually placed under arrest for DUI; additional charges,...
State v. Hackert - 1/15/2003
Factual Background
On March 23th and April 11th of 2000, the Appellant and a female accomplice sold approximately one-fourth of a pound of marijuana to a confidential informant, who was working for the city of Franklin Police...
State v. Stitts - 1/10/2003
This case arises out of the October 1, 2000 assault on LaShonda Hudson. The defendant was indicted for aggravated burglary, aggravated assault while enjoined by an order of protection, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and...
State v. Releford - 1/7/2003
Factual Background
On February 9, 2000, Officer Steve Hammonds responded to a report that a burglar alarm had been triggered at the Elks Club in Kingsport, Tennessee. When investigating the perimeter of the building, Officer...
State v. Young - 1/7/2003
The proof in the record establishes that while the thirty-year-old defendant was serving as a Rutherford County Sheriff's Department school resource officer, he was involved over a period of several months in sexual relationships...
State v. Jones - 1/2/2003
This case relates to the victim's being burned by hot water in a bathtub. LaSonya Ellis, the victim's mother, testified that in September 1999, she lived in an apartment with the defendant and her two sons, the victim and Kyrus, who...
State v. Martin - 1/2/2003
On August 24, 1998, at approximately 9:00 p.m., Officer B. E. Copley, a member of the DUI Squad of the Memphis Police Department, conducted a stop of the defendant's vehicle in the area of Winchester Road and Knight Road in Shelby...
State v. Hallsford - 12/20/2002
The Defendant, Theresa Hallsford, was indicted on one count of arson, a class C felony. She filed an application for pretrial diversion, which was denied by the State. She then filed a petition for writ of certiorari, appealing the...
State v. Manning - 12/20/2002
On October 15, 2001, the defendant, Jerome D. Manning, pleaded guilty in the Sumner County Criminal Court to a Class B felony drug offense, possession of more than one-half gram of cocaine with intent to sell. See Tenn. Code Ann. §...
Liles v. Mitchell - 12/19/2002
Mark Blair lives in Oak Grove, Missouri with his wife Kathy Blair. They are parents of four children. David and Barbara Liles are residents of Lebanon, Tennessee, and parents of Rebecca Liles Mitchell, Mark Blair's former mistress....
State v. Neal - 12/19/2002
This case arises from a wreck on May 15, 1999, in which the defendant's van crossed the center line of Highway 62 and struck a pickup truck, killing the victim, Jimmy Allen Morgan. The nine- and five-year-old sons of the defendant's...
State v. Rosenbalm - 12/9/2002
In February of 1999, the victim, S.R., age sixteen, lived with her mother, Gloria Miller, in Bristol. On the sixth of that month, the defendant, who was the biological father of the victim, drove to Bristol for a visit. He had not...
Mercer v. Vanderbilt University - 12/5/2002
I.
This is an action for damages for medical malpractice in the treatment of Larry T. Qualls, a thirty-six-year-old hemophiliac, who was severely injured in a single-vehicle accident on May 30, 1998. Mr. Qualls's injuries,...
State v. York - 12/3/2002
FACTS
According to the presentence report, the defendant, Jeffrey Dana York, picked his wife, Cindy Curry, up from work sometime after 4 p.m. on April 2, 2001. She said that he was upset and she could tell that he had been...
State v. Knight - 12/2/2002
The presentence report contained in the record reflects that, on February 18, 1999, the defendant, after his neighbor denied him entry to the neighbor's house, broke into the neighbor's house and unsuccessfully attacked him with a...
State v. Baker - 11/26/2002
Officer Glen Ramsey of the Cookeville Police Department testified that on October 13, 2000, while on duty, he noticed a red and white pickup truck make a "very wide left turn," either hitting the sidewalk or coming close to doing so....
State v. Daniel - 11/22/2002
The jury convicted both defendants of driving under the influence, first offense. Defendant Ronnie K. Daniel was driving when he and his passenger, defendant Jessica J. Echols, were involved in an automobile accident in Davidson...
State v. Payne - 11/20/2002
FACTS
On July 1, 1997, the Shelby County Grand Jury returned indictments against the defendant, charging him in a one-count indictment with criminal attempt to commit especially aggravated robbery, and in a two-count indictment...
Roe v. State - 11/20/2002
In this appeal from the trial court's denial of post-conviction relief, the Defendant's primary contention is that his trial lawyers were ineffective. However, he also claims that he was denied due process because one of his jailers...
State v. Willis - 11/19/2002
Before we address the merits of the Defendant's case, a careful parsing of Tennessee's implied consent law, Tennessee Code Annotated section 55-10-406, will be helpful. First, " ny person who drives any motor vehicle in the state is...
State v. Jones - 11/15/2002
Factual Background
On January 19, 2001, the Appellant sold cocaine to an undercover agent of the Martin Police Department. On September 4, 2001, a Weakley County grand jury indicted the Appellant for sale of less than .5 grams...
State v. Jensen - 11/15/2002
During the suppression hearing, Officer Donald Bond with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department testified that on August 30, 2000, the police dispatcher advised him an EMS unit reported a possible DUI driver on Lee Highway in...
State v. Shinavar - 11/15/2002
On June 9, 2000, the defendant, Thomas Shinavar, was arrested for DUI. The defendant was indicted for fourth offense DUI and was convicted as charged. Because sufficiency of the evidence is not an issue in this appeal, we will not...
State v. Partin - 11/15/2002
On July 15, 2000, the defendant was arrested for driving after being declared an habitual motor vehicle offender. On February 16, 2001, while he was on bond for the first offense, the defendant was involved as a driver in a motor...
State v. Blye - 11/1/2002
On the morning of July 31, 1998, Alfred Mann of the Colonial Heights area in Sullivan County discovered that his silver1987 Volkswagen Scirocco sports car, valued at between $5,000 and $6,000, had been taken from his front lawn. He...
State v. Haskett - 10/31/2002
Assigned on Briefs December 18, 2001
The Defendant pled guilty to aggravated burglary and assault. The Defendant received a sentence of six years for the aggravated burglary conviction and a sentence of eleven months and...
State v. Criner - 10/31/2002
The defendant was charged with and convicted of DUI and driving on a revoked license, the latter not being appealed. At the defendant's bench trial, Officer Willard Lane, Jr. of the Ripley Police Department testified that on June 5,...
State v. Hord - 10/30/2002
The Defendant argues one issue in this appeal: whether the trial court erred in overruling the Defendant's motion to suppress because the stop of her vehicle by the police violated her constitutional right to be free from an...
State v. Huskey - 6/28/2002
The defendant was convicted in the Knox County Criminal Court in two cases, which will be referred to as the first rape case and the consolidated rape case. On October 20, 1995, the defendant was convicted by a jury in the first rape...
State v. Webster - 6/26/2002
The defendant originally pled guilty to three counts of forgery, a Class E felony. On December 11, 2000, the trial court sentenced her as a Range I, standard offender to concurrent one- year sentences to be served in the community...
State v. Reed - 6/25/2002
On November 3, 1997, the defendant, Ricky Ray Reed, Jr., was indicted for first degree murder for the March 11, 1997, killing of the victim, Tony Terrell Moss. A jury convicted him of second degree murder, a Class A felony, on May 5,...
State v. Grant - 6/21/2002
Between 3:00 and 4:00 A.M. on November 8, 1998, the defendant entered a Rocky Top Market and attempted to purchase beer from the clerk, Melissa Webster. Because it was after 3:00 A.M., beyond the time of legal beer sales, Ms. Webster...
State v. Bass - 6/14/2002
The defendant was indicted for driving under the influence, violation of the implied consent law, failure to appear, and operating a motor vehicle with an improper taillight. The defendant entered a plea of guilt to driving under the...
State v. Snow - 6/7/2002
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
When Defendant pled guilty to attempted second degree murder of the victim, Martha Ellison, the prosecutor submitted the following facts to support a conviction for attempted second degree murder in...
State v. Haddon - 6/5/2002
Background
The record reflects that Defendant was indicted on October 11, 2000, on one count of driving under the influence of an intoxicant ("DUI"), second offense, Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-401(a)(1), and one count of driving...
State v. Hickey - 5/31/2002
I. Facts
On the evening of April 28, 1998, Officer Sharon Terrell of the Knoxville Police Department was on routine patrol when she received a cell phone call from a resident of the Autumn Place Subdivision. Officer Terrell...
State v. Tait - 5/21/2002
On July 11, 1999, the defendant was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. Nineteen months later, the defendant was indicted for one count of driving under the influence and one count of driving with a blood alcohol...
State v. Dalton - 5/21/2002
On August 6, 1998, the defendant was indicted by a Hickman County Grand Jury for premeditated first degree murder and felony murder as to the victim, Gary Donald, two counts of attempted first degree murder, and two counts of...
State v. Ramagos - 5/20/2002
FACTS
On December 1, 2000, the Davidson County Grand Jury indicted the defendant, Nathan Scott Ramagos, on one count of sexual battery, three counts of indecent exposure, and one count of aggravated assault. The details of...
State v. Newland - 5/17/2002
The defendant pled guilty to rape, a Class B felony, and the trial court sentenced him as a violent offender to eight years. Upon the defendant serving one hundred days in jail, the remainder of his sentence was to be served on...
State v. Rickman - 5/17/2002
I. Procedural Background
On September 30, 1977, a Shelby County Grand Jury indicted appellants Groseclose and Rickman and co-defendants Barton Wayne Mount and Phillip Michael Britt for one count of first degree murder and...
State v. Ketchum - 5/17/2002
The Defendant was indicted by the Sullivan County Grand Jury for aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the Defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to attempted aggravated sexual battery and...
State v. Powers - 5/16/2002
Factual Background
On October 12, 2000, Officer Tara Bell Kube of the Obion Police Department, while on routine patrol, observed a red Camaro driving on the wrong side of the road with "no headlights on and no taillights ."...
State v. Cowan - 5/14/2002
On May 19, 1999, officers responded to an automobile accident in Memphis, Tennessee in which a Pontiac Firebird collided with a tree. Both occupants were ejected from the vehicle. The victim, Reginald Thomas, died. The Defendant,...
State v. Harmon - 5/14/2002
On July 31, 2000, at about 1:00 or 2:00 P.M., the victims, David and Susan Turner, discovered that their Harley-Davidson motorcycle had been stolen from the carport of their residence in Chuckey. The motorcycle, a 1980 Super Glide,...
State v. Marks - 5/10/2002
BACKGROUND
The defendant, William David Marks, was indicted for Class A misdemeanor assault for allegedly striking and kicking his ex-wife, Patsy Anderson. The following facts are summarized from the letter of denial of...
State v. Breaux - 5/7/2002
BACKGROUND
Following charges of possession of marijuana, fourth offense, and driving under the influence ("DUI"), third offense, the defendant pled guilty on May 11, 2000, to DUI, first offense, a Class A misdemeanor. He was...
State v. King - 5/7/2002
TRIAL TESTIMONY
On December 12, 1998, the defendant shot and killed the victim with a blast from a twelve-gauge shotgun. The circumstances surrounding the homicide are disputed.
Acquilla Shrum, the victim's mother and the...
State v. Wood - 5/7/2002
I.
Connie Robbrecht Wood obtained an Order of Protection against her husband, forty-year- old Stephen Bart Wood, on August 9, 2000. The order, which was issued by the General Sessions Court of Davidson County, prohibited Mr....
State v. Shields - 5/3/2002
Factual Background
On August 29, 1999, KC, then eleven years old, traveled with her family to Memphis to visit her step-father's family. Around five o'clock that evening, KC and her family returned to Jackson. Thereafter, KC...
State v. Giardina - 5/2/2002
In the light most favorable to the state, the evidence showed that on October 12, 2000, Reverend Teddy Webb drove a Ford Ranger pick-up truck he had borrowed from a friend into the parking lot at the Amoco Quick-Stop in Church Hill....
State v. Scruggs - 4/30/2002
The defendant, Jesse R. Scruggs, was indicted in Count One for operating a motor vehicle while a Habitual Traffic Offender Order was in effect; in Count Two for driving while under the influence of an intoxicant ("DUI"); and in Count...
State v. Taylor - 4/29/2002
On March 6, 2000, a Franklin County Grand Jury returned a seven count indictment against defendant, Randall Taylor, charging him with driving under the influence of an intoxicant, third offense; driving on a revoked license, second...
State v. Trout - 4/24/2002
VEHICULAR CRIMES GRAND JURY
A. Procedural History
Defendant was indicted for DUI by the Vehicular Crimes Grand Jury, as it is termed in Davidson County. The judge presiding over the Vehicular Crimes Grand Jury is the...
State v. Haley - 4/22/2002
Shortly before 6:00 A.M. on September 26, 1999, the victim, Keith Jackson, was shot and killed as he left Mr. C's Private Party Lounge located at the corner of McCalla Avenue and Spurgeon Street in Knoxville. After being dispatched...
State v. Deason - 4/18/2002
After a jury trial, the defendant was found guilty of driving while intoxicated as charged in the indictment. At the sentencing hearing, the defendant stipulated to two prior DUI convictions and was sentenced for third offense DUI to...
State v. Jones - 4/18/2002
I. Factual Background
On January 10, 1991, a jury found the appellant guilty of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, a class D felony. The trial court sentenced the appellant as a standard Range I offender to three years...
State v. Fulcher - 4/18/2002
The defendant pled guilty to the charges pursuant to a plea agreement, by which he received concurrent sentences of seven years for each offense as a Range II, multiple offender. The issue of alternative sentencing was left to the...
State v. Williams - 4/17/2002
In September 1991, the Defendant shot and killed Raymond Brooks, the victim in this case, outside of a club in Memphis. Although he was fifteen years old at the time of the crime, the Defendant was tried as an adult and convicted of...
State v. Raines - 4/17/2002
The defendant, Michael Raines, was indicted for first degree murder. After a jury trial, he was convicted of the lesser-included offense of second degree murder, a Class A felony. He was sentenced as a Range I standard offender to...
State v. King - 4/16/2002
At the sentencing hearing the Defendant testified that he suffers from several physical and mental impairments. He is forty-one years old, married and a high school graduate. He is 100% disabled and receives disability payments from...
State v. Farrar - 4/16/2002
On January 18, 2001, the defendant, Kevin Lane Farrar, was indicted by the Bedford County Grand Jury on one count of aggravated criminal trespass and two counts of aggravated assault for cutting his cousin with a knife during a...
State v. Wilcox - 4/9/2002
This case relates to the defendant's, Alfred Freddie Wilcox, being stopped for driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUI). During the suppression hearing, Officer James Brown of the Johnson City Police Department testified...
State v. Parton - 4/9/2002
BACKGROUND
On May 16, 2000, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Ray Reynolds and his wife Patricia Reynolds were traveling with their son, Casey, to a little league baseball game. Their car, driven by Mr. Reynolds, was traveling north...
State v. Clark - 4/4/2002
Assigned on Briefs March 19, 2002
The Defendant, Adrian Dee Clark, pled guilty to one count of aggravated assault. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced the Defendant as a Range I standard offender to serve five...
State v. Giles - 4/2/2002
Factual Background
On February 18, 2001, Deputy Clyde Sulcer, of the Henry County Sheriff's Department, was called to the scene of a "disabled or stuck" vehicle along Highway 79 South in Henry County. When Sulcer arrived, he...
State v. Rogers - 3/26/2002
FACTS
At the sentencing hearing, the victim, Glenda Wright Maples, testified that on January 8, 1999, she was living in Manchester, Tennessee, and working as an insurance agent. The defendant was her live-in boyfriend. She...
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