a morning almost two years ago, then-58-year-old David Shearon of Christiana, Tenn., was driving around Nashville running some business errands when his pickup truck was rear-ended. The driver of the 2001 Cadillac that had hit him from behind took responsibility…
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TN Needs to Address Egregious Violations of Justice
The cases of Clark McMillan and Lawrence McKinney — two men who spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit — have exposed a major blind spot in the Tennessee criminal justice system that lawmakers need to correct….
Read MorePolicing for Profit Corruption Bill Fails in State House
This was the year that some civil liberty advocates had hoped would bring an end to “policing for profit” in Tennessee. But with lawmakers heading for adjournment, most of those reform measures have once again gone down in defeat. In…
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