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Tennessee Supreme Court Has Several Criminal Cases On the Docket

By Baker Associates

One of the most difficult things about the practice of law is that the law is constantly evolving. Even laws that have been worded exactly the same way for hundreds of years are always being reinterpreted and laws that seem to have plain meaning can be a source of controversy when they are applied to complicated or novel factual scenarios. Some such controversies make their way to the Tennessee Supreme Court, which has several notable criminal cases on its upcoming docket. One case, styled State v. Swift presents an interesting fact situation that calls for an interpretation of Tennessee?s aggravated robbery statute. The issue presented in this case is whether the evidence is sufficient to justify convicting the defendant of aggravated robbery where the violence or intimidation occurred after the taking that constituted the robbery was complete...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).