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. Socall - 8/16/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 19, 2001
The Appellant, Edwin Milton Socall, was indicted by a Montgomery County Grand Jury for driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, violation of the implied consent law, and driving on a...
State v. Eidson - 8/16/2001
The Appellant, Galen Dean Eidson, was indicted by a Sumner County Grand Jury for second degree murder. Pursuant to the terms of a plea agreement, Eidson pled guilty to the reduced offense of reckless homicide. Following a sentencing...
State v. Huskey - 8/13/2001
The defendant, Thomas Dee Huskey, brings this interlocutory appeal, contending that the double jeopardy protections of the United States and Tennessee Constitutions bar a retrial following the jury's deadlock on four counts of first...
State v. Simpson - 8/10/2001
A Blount County jury convicted the Defendant, Jerry Ray Simpson of driving under the influence and driving on a revoked license. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant raises the single issue of whether the trial court erred by...
State v. Bowen - 8/8/2001
The defendant, Ricky R. Bowen, is charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUI). The state was granted an interlocutory appeal from the trial court's order dismissing the second "count" of the indictment by which the...
State v. Ware - 8/7/2001
The defendant, Stephen Michael Ware, pled guilty to driving under the influence (third offense), driving on a revoked license (second offense), felony evading arrest, resisting arrest and felony failure to appear. The plea agreement...
State v. Freeland - 8/3/2001
The defendant was declared a motor vehicle habitual offender in Benton County Circuit Court. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred because the first qualifying underlying conviction occurred more than five years before the...
State v. Wilson - 8/2/2001
The Defendant, Daniel Wade Wilson, appeals as of right his convictions for second degree murder, first degree felony murder and especially aggravated robbery in the Sullivan County Criminal Court. The trial court merged the second...
State v. Garcia - 7/31/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 27, 2001
A Greene County jury convicted the Defendant of reckless aggravated assault, a Class D felony, and the trial court sentenced the Defendant as a Range I, standard offender to four years in the...
Overland v. Swifty Oil Company - 7/31/2001
On October 22, 1997, an accident occurred involving two minors, Ms. JoNee O'Brien and Ms. Kari Ann White. As a result of the accident, Ms. White, a passenger in Ms. O'Brien's automobile sustained fatal injuries. On February 24, 1998,...
State v. Aikens - 7/30/2001
The Loudon County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. The Defendant's first jury trial resulted in a mistrial. Following a second trial, a Loudon County jury convicted the Defendant of...
State v. Rhea - 7/27/2001
The Appellant, Donald W. Rhea, Jr. was indicted on one count of aggravated robbery and one count of attempted aggravated robbery stemming from a single criminal episode. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Rhea pled guilty to the lesser...
State v. Humphreys - 7/26/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 20, 2001
Harold W. Humphreys was found guilty by a Williamson County jury of driving under the influence, first offense. The trial court imposed a sentence of 11 months 29 days, suspended after service of...
State v. Clark - 7/25/2001
Assigned on Briefs February 6, 2001
The defendant was convicted in a jury trial of driving under the influence (DUI), third offense, and of driving on a revoked license. In this appeal, the defendant contends (1) that the stop of...
State v. Reid - 7/20/2001
The defendant, Anthony Reid, was convicted by a Bradley County jury of first degree felony murder and especially aggravated robbery, Class A felonies, aggravated robbery, a Class B felony, attempted aggravated robbery, a Class C...
State v. Caldwell - 7/20/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 20, 2001
After trial, a Putnam County jury found Defendant guilty of the unlawful possession of a controlled substance, to wit: cocaine over .5 grams, for resale, driving under the influence of an...
State v. McCracken - 7/19/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 24, 2001
The defendant appeals from his Sullivan County Criminal Court conviction and sentence for driving under the influence (DUI), second offense, a Class A misdemeanor. The trial court sentenced the...
State v. McKnight - 7/19/2001
Robert M. McKnight pleaded guilty to two charges of driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUI) and was sentenced to consecutive terms of 11 months 29 days. The sentence provided that McKnight serve 210 days in jail; the time...
State v. Avery - 7/16/2001
The Defendant was indicted by the Carroll County Grand Jury for one count of introduction of drugs into a penal institution. The Defendant moved for pretrial diversion, but the request was denied by the District Attorney General. The...
State v. Clouse - 7/11/2001
In this case, we granted the appellant's application for an interlocutory appeal to determine whether the Van Buren County Circuit Court erred in denying the appellant's motion to dismiss the State's indictment charging him with...
State v. Scarbrough - 7/11/2001
The defendant, David Scarbrough, was convicted of two counts of felony murder, two counts of theft, and aggravated burglary. The trial court imposed sentences of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole for each of the murders,...
State v. Petty - 7/10/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 20, 2001
The Appellant, Jeffrey Scott Petty, was indicted by a Bedford County Grand Jury for one count of driving under the influence. On May 30, 2000, a jury convicted the Appellant of DUI, first offense,...
State v. Tidwell - 7/9/2001
Assigned on Briefs November 14, 2000 Session
The State of Tennessee appeals from the trial court's dismissal of an indictment for DUI against the appellee, Glenn Tidwell. The trial court determined that the indictment should be...
State v. Pate - 6/27/2001
Assigned on Briefs April 24, 2001
The Defendant, William Cash Pate, was convicted by a jury of second offense driving under the influence (DUI). In this appeal as of right, he argues that the trial court erred by failing to...
State v. Snider - 6/26/2001
The Defendant, Russell Snider, was convicted by a jury of third offense driving under the influence (DUI). He was sentenced to eleven months, twenty-nine days, with four months and twenty-nine days suspended. In this appeal as of...
State v. Johnson - 6/26/2001
The defendant was indicted by a Shelby County Grand Jury for driving while an habitual motor vehicle offender, felony evading arrest, and driving under the influence of an intoxicant, fourth offense (felony DUI), all charges arising...
Lett v. Collis Foods - 6/26/2001
This case presents the question of whether, under the facts presented here, the defendant employer owed a duty to a third person to prevent an intoxicated employee from leaving work and driving home. The employee, Lynda Mills, was...
State v. Turner - 6/5/2001
The defendant appeals from his convictions for first degree felony murder and aggravated rape, for which he received consecutive sentences of life and twenty-two years, respectively. The defendant contests the sufficiency of the...
State v. Richardson - 5/31/2001
Assigned on Briefs April 25, 2001
The Defendant, Frankie L. Richardson, appeals as of right from the revocation of his probation. He argues that the trial judge abused his discretion by revoking probation. We find no abuse of...
State v. Bottoms - 5/31/2001
Assigned on Briefs April 25, 2001
The defendant pled guilty in Davidson County Criminal Court to one count of arson, a Class C felony, based on his setting fire to a rental house. According to a plea agreement with the State, he...
State v. Sides - 5/16/2001
Assigned on Briefs March 20, 2001
This is a state appeal from the suppression of evidence. The defendant was indicted for driving under the influence (DUI), second offense, and leaving the scene of an accident. The defendant...
State ex rel Woodall v. D & L Co. - 5/16/2001
This is a public nuisance case. The State filed a petition for abatement of a public nuisance against the defendants, the owners and operators of an adult entertainment club. The trial court found that the club constituted a "nuisance"...
Claypole v. State - 5/16/2001
The petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy was violated by his multiple sentences. The post-conviction court denied the petition, finding that the...
State v. Melton - 5/14/2001
Assigned on Briefs April 11, 2001
The Defendant pleaded guilty to manufacturing methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance. The Defendant was sentenced as a Range I standard offender to five years in the Tennessee...
State v. Phillips - 5/11/2001
The defendant was convicted by a jury of one count of driving while his driver's license was revoked, one count of criminal impersonation, and was found guilty of violating the implied consent law. The defendant claims there was...
State v. Evans - 5/11/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 24, 2001
The appellant, State of Tennessee, charged the defendant, Ronnie Lamar Evans, with driving under the influence (DUI), fourth offense. Prior to trial, a dispute arose about whether the...
State v. Stacy - 5/9/2001
Assigned on Briefs March 20, 2001
The defendant was indicted by a Polk County Grand Jury for first degree murder. Following a two-day trial, he was found guilty of second degree murder, a Class A felony. The trial court sentenced...
State v. Conway - 5/8/2001
Assigned on Briefs February 6, 2001
The defendant was indicted for driving under the influence (DUI), driving while his alcohol concentration was .10% or more (DUI per se), and DUI, second offense. After a jury trial on DUI and...
Jordan v. State - 5/2/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 18, 2001
The petitioner, William Ronald Jordan, was convicted by a jury in the Giles County Circuit Court of driving under the influence of an intoxicant ("DUI") and attempted robbery. The trial court...
State v. Shofner - 5/1/2001
Assigned on Briefs February 20, 2001
Michael Shawn Shofner appeals from the Knox County Criminal Court's denial of his "Motion to Void Judgment," in which he seeks relief under Rule of Civil Procedure 60.02 from an order...
State v. Roper - 4/30/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 23, 2001
The defendant appeals from his conviction for driving under the influence, third offense, contending that the trial court erred by denying his motion to sever. We affirm the judgment of the...
Sneed v. State - 3/28/2001
The Defendant was convicted of DUI, second offense, and driving on a revoked license, second offense. His convictions were affirmed on direct appeal, and he subsequently filed for post-conviction relief, which was denied. In this...
State v. Fry - 3/22/2001
Assigned on Briefs September 27, 2000
Tracy Fry, the Defendant and Appellant, pled guilty to driving under the influence, second offense. With the State's and trial court's agreement, however, she specifically reserved the right...
State v. Thomas - 3/22/2001
Assigned on Briefs February 14, 2001
The defendant was charged in the Williamson County Circuit Court with DUI, first offense, after a police officer observed him operating his vehicle in an erratic fashion. A videotape was made...
State v. Brooks - 3/22/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 23, 2001
The defendant, William P. Brooks, was convicted of driving on a revoked license, third offense, a Class A misdemeanor. The trial court imposed a sentence of 11 months and 29 days, requiring 90...
Garrett v. State - 3/22/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 21, 2000
The defendant, after being convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, was denied post-conviction relief by the Criminal Court of Davidson County. Defendant now appeals...
Brooks v. State - 3/22/2001
The petitioner, George Milton Brooks, appeals as of right from the Dyer County Circuit Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief. Petitioner contends that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his...
State v. Harman - 3/21/2001
Assigned on Briefs September 27, 2000
In October of 1999, the defendant pled guilty to one count of theft over one-thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and one count of possession of less than .5 ounces of marijuana. His plea form...
State v. Mohsenzadeh - 3/20/2001
The Defendant was convicted by a jury of DUI and sentenced to thirty days, suspended upon the service of five days, and eleven-months, twenty-nine days probation. The Defendant now appeals, contending that the arresting officer had no...
State v. Mitchell - 3/15/2001
Assigned on Briefs December 13, 2000
The defendant, David Calvin Mitchell, appeals the manner of service of his sentence for second offense DUI. Notwithstanding Anderson County's lack of a work release program for jail inmates,...
State v. Douglas - 3/15/2001
The defendant, Suzanne C. Douglas, appeals as of right from her conviction by a Dickson County jury for driving under the influence (DUI), first offense, a Class A misdemeanor. She contends that the indictment is insufficient to...
State v. Torres - 3/13/2001
The appellant, William Pierre Torres, was convicted by a jury in the Knox County Criminal Court of one count of first degree murder by aggravated child abuse and was sentenced by the jury to death by electrocution. In this appeal as of...
State v. Luckett - 3/8/2001
The Defendant was convicted by a jury of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, second offense. In this direct appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred by admitting the results of his breath-alcohol test. The...
State v. Bayuk - 3/8/2001
Assigned on Briefs November 15, 2000
The Appellant, Harold M. Bayuk, was convicted by a Hickman County Circuit Court jury of one count of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and one count of driving on a revoked license....
State v. Henderson - 3/7/2001
On April 6, 1992, the Blount County Grand Jury indicted Appellants James Henderson Dellinger and Gary Wayne Sutton for one count each of first- degree murder in the death of Tommy Griffin. Following a jury trial, the Appellants were...
State v. Austin - 3/6/2001
In 1977, Richard Hale Austin was found guilty by a Shelby County jury of accessory before the fact to the first degree murder of Julian Watkins. Austin's conviction stemmed from his role in commissioning the murder of Watkins, a...
State v. McBryar - 3/2/2001
A Hamilton County jury convicted the Defendant of violating the Sexual Offender Registration and Monitoring Act. The trial court subsequently sentenced him to 180 days incarceration. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant argues (1)...
State v. McCullough - 3/2/2001
Defendant pled guilty to one count of violating the Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender Act and one count of driving under the influence, eighth offense, both Class E felonies. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of one year and six...
State v. Knight - 3/1/2001
The defendant pled guilty to four counts of obtaining prescription drugs by use of a forged prescription, and the trial court sentenced her to an effective sentence of fourteen years incarceration. The defendant contests the sentences...
State v. Proffitt - 3/1/2001
The defendant, David Howard Proffitt, was convicted of theft of property over $10,000 and less than $60,000 in value, a Class C felony. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-105. The trial court imposed a Range I sentence of five years, to be...
State v. Imfeld - 2/27/2001
The defendant, Sean Imfeld, pled guilty to one count of driving under the influence and five counts of aggravated assault by recklessness, a Class D felony. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-102(d). The trial court originally imposed an...
State v. Britt - 2/23/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 23, 2001
The defendant appeals from his Sullivan County Criminal Court sentence for Class C felony theft over $10,000 but less than $60,000. Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-14-103, -14-105(4) (1997). The trial...
Freeman v. State - 2/21/2001
Paul Freeman appeals from the dismissal of his petition for post- conviction relief. In this appeal, Freeman collaterally attacks his DUI conviction in the City Court of Jackson upon grounds that his uncounseled guilty plea was not...
State v. Knighton - 2/15/2001
The defendant was convicted by a jury of aggravated rape, aggravated burglary and theft. In his direct appeal, he presents six issues for review. Three of those issues concern the jury selection process, one issue is an evidentiary...
State v. Purkey - 2/13/2001
Assigned on Briefs December 13, 2000
The appellant, Patty Pace Purkey, pled guilty in the Grainger County Criminal Court to one count of vehicular assault, a class D felony, one count of reckless endangerment, a class E felony,...
State v. Johnson - 2/13/2001
Assigned on Briefs January 9, 2001
The defendant was convicted by a Hardin County jury of driving under the influence (DUI), possession of marijuana, and possession with the intent to sell or deliver 0.5 grams or more of cocaine....
State v. Hodge - 2/9/2001
The defendant appeals the Blount County Circuit Court's determination that her plea-bargained, eleven-month and 29-day effective sentence for theft and possession of cocaine shall be served in confinement, subject to 75 percent of...
State v. Brim - 2/9/2001
On September 19, 1997, the defendant, Kevin Wayne Brim, pled guilty to theft of property over $1,000, a Class D felony, and the Williamson County Circuit Court sentenced him as a Range I, standard offender to four years, which were...
State v. Loveday - 2/8/2001
Following a jury trial, Defendant, James M. Loveday, was convicted of one count of attempted first degree murder, four counts of aggravated assault, and two counts of reckless endangerment. The trial court sentenced him to twenty-five...
State v. Morrow - 2/1/2001
The appellant, the State of Tennessee, appeals the order of the Maury County Circuit Court permitting the appellee, Marcus Morrow, to participate in a work release program during his forty-five-day incarceration for driving under the...
State v. Dowdy - 1/26/2001
Defendant, Bryan Herman Dowdy, appeals his jury convictions for vehicular homicide by intoxication, two counts of vehicular assault, and felony evading arrest. He was sentenced to eight years and six months for vehicular homicide, two...
Carter v. State - 1/26/2001
Assigned on Briefs October 17, 2000
The defendant, after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated assault, DUI second offense, and violation of seat belt law, sought alternative sentencing. A sentencing hearing was held and...
Nichols v. State - 1/19/2001
The petitioner filed petitions for post-conviction relief for his conviction for first degree felony murder and his sentence of death, as well as for a number of convictions for sexual attacks on four additional victims. The bases of...
State v. Sanders - 1/18/2001
The Appellant, Timothy Tyrone Sanders, was convicted by a Bedford County jury of possession of more than .5 grams of cocaine with intent to sell. The Appellant was sentenced to seventeen years six months as a range II offender. On...
State v. Ratliff - 1/11/2001
The defendant appeals his conviction of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and vandalism under $500.00. He contends the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict of the jury, the sentence of two years was excessive, and...
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