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. Sanders - 1/10/2001
The Defendant pleaded guilty in Sullivan County Criminal Court to violation of a habitual traffic offender order, a Class E felony, and driving under the influence, second offense, a Class A misdemeanor. The Defendant was sentenced to...
State v. Bowers - 1/9/2001
After entering guilty pleas to possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance (marijuana); driving under the influence, third offense; and driving while his license was revoked, after a second or subsequent conviction for driving...
State v. Williams - 1/9/2001
This appeal arises from the sentence that the Shelby County Criminal Court imposed upon James M. Williams, after a previous appeal to this court resulted in a modification of his original two-year incarcerative sentence to a sentence...
State v. Cox - 1/5/2001
The defendant pled guilty to facilitation of the sale of cocaine under Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-17-417. The defendant was sentenced to a six-year term at the Department of Correction, as a Range I offender, and fined $2000....
State v. Green - 1/4/2001
The state appeals the defendant's withdrawal of his guilty plea to driving under the influence. It contends that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to grant the defendant's motion to withdraw because the judgment of conviction became...
State v. Foster - 1/2/2001
Assigned on Briefs October 17, 2000
The defendant pled guilty to three counts of violating the Motor Vehicle Habitual Offender Act, and was sentenced to three consecutive three-year sentences. Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-601. The...
State v. Scarborough - 12/28/2000
Mark A. Scarborough appeals the sentencing decision of the Hickman County Circuit Court following his jury conviction of driving under the influence. The issue of enhanced punishment as a prior DUI offender was submitted to the trial...
State v. Davis - 12/28/2000
Defendant Zane Allen Davis was found guilty by a Williamson County jury of violating Tenn. Code Ann. §55-10-401(a)(2), driving a vehicle while the alcohol concentration in the driver's blood or breath was ten- hundredths of one percent...
State v. Meeks - 12/28/2000
The Defendant, Beverly K. Meeks, entered best interest guilty pleas to charges of child neglect, a Class D felony, and resisting arrest, a Class B misdemeanor. She received agreed sentences of three years for child neglect and three...
State v. Harber - 12/27/2000
While driving under the influence of alcohol, the defendant lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into a road embankment, causing the death of one of his five teenaged passengers. He pled guilty to vehicular homicide by...
State v. Knox - 12/27/2000
The defendant pled guilty to vehicular homicide by intoxication, a Class B felony, and was sentenced as a Range I, standard offender to: eight years imprisonment; a $10,000 fine; and state probation, to be served upon his release from...
State v. Thompson - 12/15/2000
In 1995, Billy Thompson, a Mississippi resident, was convicted in Shelby County of driving under the influence, resulting in suspension of his driving privileges in this state for one year. Fifteen months later, Thompson was again...
State v. Cofer - 12/15/2000
Defendant was indicted for aggravated robbery, and a Roane County jury found him guilty of the lesser offense of simple robbery, a Class C felony. The trial court sentenced him to six years as a Range II, multiple offender, to be...
State v. Dockery - 12/14/2000
The Defendant, John Lee Dockery, was convicted after a bench trial of fourth offense driving under the influence (DUI) and driving on a revoked license. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant argues that the trial court erred by...
State v. Green - 12/14/2000
The defendant appeals from her Blount County Circuit Court conviction and sentence for driving under the influence, a Class A misdemeanor. The trial court sentenced the defendant to eleven months and 29 days in the Blount County Jail,...
State v. Yancey - 12/14/2000
The appellant/defendant, Jerry W. Yancey, Jr., was convicted by the Williamson County Jury on four counts, two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of felony reckless endangerment. In count five, the defendant was found not...
State v. Ward - 12/14/2000
The appellant/defendant, Arnold K. Ward, Jr., appeals as of right from a judgment of conviction and sentencing imposed by the Williamson County Circuit Court. Upon jury conviction for attempted murder second degree and assault, the...
State v. Waldrum - 12/8/2000
The defendant appeals his conviction for DUI, fourth offense, contesting the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction; the validity of his seizure and arrest; and the admissibility of the breath alcohol test result, the...
State v. Jefferson - 12/8/2000
The defendant, Chris A. Jefferson, appeals a certified question reserved pursuant to his guilty plea to the crime of driving under the influence. Jefferson claims that the arresting officer's observation that Jefferson was weaving...
State v. Houston - 12/7/2000
Defendant was convicted by a Giles County jury of eight drug offenses and one count of aggravated assault. He received an effective sentence of seventy-two years. In this appeal, the defendant makes the following allegations: (1) the...
State v. Goodman - 12/7/2000
The defendant, Jesse C. Goodman, Jr., was convicted by a Hickman County jury of one count of aggravated assault, a Class C felony, three counts of reckless endangerment, a Class E felony, and one count of assault, a Class A...
State v. Whaley - 12/6/2000
The trial court dismissed defendant's DUI presentment, finding a denial of the right to a preliminary hearing. Upon the state's appeal, we find no evidence of bad faith by the state. Accordingly, we reverse and remand to the trial...
State v. Webster - 12/4/2000
Assigned on Briefs September 27, 2000
The defendant appeals the trial court's denial of probation or split confinement as the manner of serving his eight-year rape sentence. Because the record supports the trial court's...
State v. Dailey - 11/28/2000
The Defendant, Joshua Dailey, pled guilty to two counts of the Class E felony offense of violation of the Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender Act. The trial court sentenced Defendant to two years for each conviction, to be served...
State v. Jarman - 11/17/2000
The appellant, Kenneth Ray Jarman, pled guilty in the Montgomery County Criminal Court to one count of driving under the influence (hereinafter "DUI"), fourth offense or over, a class E felony; one count of driving on a revoked...
State v. Inlow - 11/17/2000
On December 18, 1998, a Williamson County Jury convicted Michael Inlow, the defendant and appellant, of attempting to commit second-degree murder. Following a sentencing hearing, the court sentenced the defendant to serve twelve (12)...
State v. Karvey - 11/17/2000
The defendant entered a plea of guilty to DUI, and attempted to reserve a certified question of law pursuant to Tenn. R. Crim. P. 37(b)(2)(i). The defendant contends that the stop of his vehicle by police was illegal and that all...
Keele v. Acosta-Delgado - 11/15/2000
This is a post-divorce child custody dispute. The mother filed a petition to regain custody of the parties' three children after she had entered into an agreed order in 1995 granting custody to the defendant father. After hearing...
Clifton v. Acosta-Delgado - 11/15/2000
This is a post-divorce child custody dispute. The mother filed a petition to regain custody of the parties' three children after she had entered into an agreed order in 1995 granting custody to the defendant father. After hearing...
State v. Deason - 11/9/2000
The appellant, Charles Ricky Deason, pled guilty in the Montgomery County Circuit Court to one count of driving under the influence (hereinafter "DUI"), seventh offense; one count of leaving the scene of an accident; one count of...
State v. Burnette - 11/9/2000
Defendant Carl David Burnette was found guilty by a Grundy County jury of vehicular homicide as the proximate result of intoxication, Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-213(a)(2), a Class B felony, and of driving under the influence of an...
State v. Malone - 11/8/2000
The Defendant was indicted for statutory rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The District Attorney General denied the Defendant's application for pretrial diversion. The trial court subsequently granted pretrial...
State v. Crehan - 11/7/2000
The defendant was convicted by a Robertson County jury of driving under the influence ("DUI"), third offense, and reckless driving. Defendant claims on appeal that the trial court erred by (1) sustaining his conviction for DUI, third...
State v. Lindsay - 11/3/2000
On September 25, 1998, Christopher Lindsay, the defendant and appellant, pled guilty to driving under the influence, second offense. Following a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced the defendant to eleven months and...
State v. Sweatt - 11/3/2000
The defendant was convicted of first degree felony murder and aggravated robbery. He was given a life sentence for the murder conviction, and eleven years for the robbery conviction, with the robbery sentence to be served consecutively...
State v. Mason - 11/3/2000
The defendant pled guilty in Davidson County Criminal Court to vehicular homicide by reckless conduct, a Class C felony, and four lesser charges against her were dismissed. Her guilty plea was submitted without any agreement of the...
State v. Borg - 11/3/2000
Defendant, Anthony Borg, pled guilty to one count of burglary and was sentenced by the trial court to a term of four years in the Department of Correction. On appeal, the defendant raises two issues: (1) whether the trial court erred...
City Of Chattanooga v. Davis - 10/31/2000
The defendant was found guilty of violating a city ordinance proscribing reckless driving. A Chattanooga city court judge imposed a "penalty" of $300. On his appeal to the Hamilton County Criminal Court, the defendant was again found...
State v. Sisco - 10/30/2000
The Defendant pleaded guilty to the offense of robbery. His plea agreement provided that he would be sentenced as a Range II multiple offender, with the length of the sentence to be determined by the trial judge. Following a sentencing...
State v. Rogers - 10/30/2000
The appellant, Barry Waters Rogers, appeals his conviction by a jury in the Giles County Circuit Court of driving under the influence of an intoxicant. On appeal, the appellant challenges the sufficiency of the underlying indictment....
State v. Mitchell - 10/30/2000
The appellant/defendant, Jimmy Ray Mitchell, appeals as of right from a judgment of the Davidson County Criminal Court from a jury conviction for the offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, first offense. The trial...
State v. Harmon - 10/20/2000
In a Loudon County bench trial, the appellant, Joseph Raymond Harmon, was convicted of one (1) count of unlawful possession of a weapon to wit: a club, with the intent to go armed in violation of Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1307. The trial...
State v. Allen - 10/19/2000
The appellant, Nathaniel Allen, was convicted by a jury in the Hamblen County Circuit Court of one count of delivery of more than .5 grams of cocaine, a class B felony. The trial court sentenced the appellant to twelve years...
State v. Emerson - 10/16/2000
The appellant, William T. Emerson, was convicted by a jury in the Criminal Court of Sullivan County of one count of reckless driving, a class B misdemeanor, one count of evading arrest, a class A misdemeanor, and one count of driving...
State v. Binette - 10/5/2000
This is an appeal from the Criminal Court for Hamilton County, which overruled the defendant's motion to suppress all evidence obtained by the State after the defendant was stopped by a police officer on suspicion of driving while...
State v. Robinson - 10/4/2000
This is an appeal from the judgment of the Rutherford County Criminal Court where the defendant was convicted and sentenced for his third offense of driving under the influence. Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-401(a) (1998). After determining...
State v. Teal - 10/4/2000
The appellant/defendant, William Timothy Teal, appeals as of right from his conviction for driving under the influence of an intoxicant, third offense, pursuant to a bench trial by the Coffee County Circuit Court. The defendant...
State v - 10/3/2000
The defendant was convicted of driving under the influence, second offense, and received a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days. The defendant was ordered to serve forty-five days in continuous confinement and five days on...
State v. O'Connor - 10/2/2000
This is a case involving two defendants: O'Connor, the mother's friend, was convicted of Aggravated Child Abuse through injury and Aggravated Child Abuse through neglect. Lekin, the mother, was convicted of Aggravated Child Abuse...
State v. Hammonds - 10/2/2000
The defendant/appellee was convicted of aggravated assault upon an indictment which charged that on February 23, 1996, in Sullivan County, the defendant "did unlawfully, feloniously, intentionally, and knowingly commit an assault [upon...
State v. Janosky - 9/29/2000
Michael Janosky appeals from his conviction of driving under the influence. In this direct appeal, he challenges his conviction based upon (1) erroneous admission of breath alcohol test results which he contends were involuntarily...
State v. Frye - 9/29/2000
This appeal arises from the order of the Sullivan County Criminal Court upholding the district attorney general's refusal to accept the application of the defendant for pretrial diversion. The defendant asserts that the trial court...
State v. Mears - 9/29/2000
The appellant, George O. Mears, appeals his conviction in the Cannon County Circuit Court of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, second offense. Pursuant to the appellant's conviction, the trial court imposed a sentence of...
King v. City Of Belle Meade - 9/27/2000
Mailed July 17, 2000
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. §50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and...
State v. Whitehead - 9/26/2000
The defendant, Bill Whitehead, was charged by presentment with thirteen counts of felonious conflict of interest in violation of Tenn. Code Ann. § 5-14-114, the conflict of interest provision contained in the County Purchasing Law of...
State v. Stearns - 9/20/2000
The appellant, Melissa Ann Stearns, pled guilty in the Williamson County Circuit Court to one (1) count of reckless endangerment, a Class E felony, and one (1) count of evading arrest, a Class E felony. The trial court sentenced the...
State v. Harbin - 9/20/2000
On July 1, 1999, the appellant, Jerry Wayne Harbin, was convicted by a jury in the Franklin County Circuit Court of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, second offense, and driving on a revoked license. The trial court imposed...
State v. Roberts - 9/20/2000
Defendant appeals his conviction by a Davidson County jury of DUI second offense. He raises the following issues for our review: (1) whether the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress based upon the lack of probable cause...
State v. Lewis - 9/18/2000
The defendant entered an Alford plea to one count of attempted rape and two counts of sexual battery. He received a sentence of eight years as a Range II offender for the attempted rape and two years, as a Range I offender, for each of...
State v. Godsey - 9/18/2000
The defendant, Bobby G. Godsey, was convicted of first degree murder during the perpetration of aggravated child abuse. The jury imposed a death sentence based upon a single aggravating circumstance: "(1) The murder was committed...
State v. Mills - 9/15/2000
The appellant, Russell E. Mills, pled guilty in the Williamson County Circuit Court to vehicular homicide as the proximate result of his intoxication, a class B felony. The parties agreed that the trial court would determine the...
State v. Martin - 9/8/2000
Defendant Ann Elizabeth Martin was convicted of driving under the influence, first offense. In this appeal as of right she argues (1) the trial court erred when it did not suppress blood test results because of statutory and...
State v. Steen - 9/1/2000
The sole issue in this appeal is whether the defendant was eligible for work release and/or periodic confinement prior to serving the mandatory minimum period of incarceration for second offense DUI. The trial court concluded that the...
Spurlock v. Jackson County - 8/31/2000
The appellants were hurt in a collision with a subject allegedly being pursued by county officers in a high speed chase. They sued the county, and the Circuit Court of Jackson County granted the county summary judgment. We affirm the...
State v. Manyal - 8/28/2000
Pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement, the Defendant was convicted of attempted aggravated sexual battery and was sentenced to serve four years in the Shelby County Correction Center. He appeals from the trial court's denial of his...
Brown v. Knox County - 8/25/2000
This is an action seeking a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, monetary damages, and class action certification. The plaintiff, who had earlier been convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant ("DUI"), contends that...
State v. Steward - 8/18/2000
Because the defendant, Joe W. Steward, was lawfully stopped at a traffic enforcement roadblock, his conviction for driving under the influence, second offense, is affirmed. The issue reserved on appeal by the defendant does not warrant...
State v. Williams - 8/18/2000
This appeal arises from the defendant's challenge to his sentence of twelve years plus a $10,000 fine for vehicular homicide, four years for reckless aggravated assault, one year for leaving the scene of an accident, and eleven months...
State v. Hutson - 8/18/2000
This appeal arises from the order of the Davidson County Criminal Court upholding the district attorney general's refusal to accept the application of the defendant, Timothy C. Hutson, for pretrial diversion. The defendant asserts that...
State v. Larson - 8/4/2000
This appeal arises from a guilty verdict returned against the defendant for DUI per se for which she received a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days, with all but ten days suspended, a $350 fine, court- ordered...
State v. Noland - 8/3/2000
This is an appeal by John Philip Noland of his Cocke County conviction for the second degree murder of Mark Goins. The appellant is currently serving a twenty-three year sentence for this offense. He raises as error (1) the trial...
State v. Cooper - 8/2/2000
The defendant appeals the trial court's revocation of his probation, based on his failing a drug screen and his delinquency in paying court costs. We hold that the record is insufficient to support the trial court's finding of...
State v. Blackburn - 7/25/2000
The Defendant, Susan Blackburn, was charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant and driving with a blood alcohol content of .10 percent or more. She was subsequently tried by jury in Williamson County and found guilty of...
State v. Ducker - 7/14/2000
FOR PUBLICATION
We granted review to determine (1) whether aggravated child abuse is a lesser-included offense of the charged offense of first degree murder for the reckless killing of a child; (2) whether the knowing mens rea of...
State v. Korsakov - 7/13/2000
The defendant, Richard Korsakov, appeals his conviction for driving under the influence of an intoxicant, third offense. He contends that (1) the breath test results were inadmissible because the officer administering the test failed...
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