Tennessee

February 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On April 21, 1997, a Loomis-Fargo armored-car driver, James Day, was shot in the back of the head outside a Memphis Walgreens where he’d just picked up a bag of...

February 21, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The Government loves to fix problems. And if it can’t find any, it creates new ones. Tennessee resident Laurie Wheeler is getting a first-hand look at how the government can...

January 20, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Confidential informants (CIs) and controlled buys are the bread and butter of most drug investigations. Without snitches, it would be difficult for law enforcement to get to the dealers and...

January 4, 2016 (Fault Lines) — When I tell people I used to live and work across the street from a moonshiner, they usually laugh and think I’m exaggerating. Rufus and his son Rocky* were the...

January 2, 2017 (Fault Lines) — The Tennessee Supreme Court recently vacated the conviction of a defendant who was accused of stalking her baby daddy. Nicole Flowers was charged with violating TCA 39-17-15, which forbids (among...

December 20, 2016 (Fault Lines) – How much is your life worth? Even when you have one of those crappy days that makes you want to just give up, how much is the ability to walk...

December 6, 2016 (Fault Lines) – On August 19, 2015, in the Chattanooga suburb of East Ridge, Police Lieutenant Daniel Stephenson, using a patrol rifle, shot and killed Todd Browning, 54, in front of Browning’s home....

October 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) – It doesn’t seem right that a city can encourage excessive alcohol consumption, and then overreact when people get drunk. Fault Lines contributor Mario Machado took the city to task for...

August 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Usually when Friday rolls around and a post with the name “Chris Seaton” runs, it’s a few good jokes designed to either rile up the overtly sensitive or give people...

July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s police are starting to finally get their acts together after the recent fiasco involving arrests of elementary school kids over an alleged off campus fight.  They responded to...