The Tennessee Supreme Court is unfamiliar territory for most lawyers. Opportunities to practice in this court are few and success requires skills of oral and written advocacy. Lessons learned during this seminar will be generally applicable to practice in appellate and trial courts. Attendees will learn from a distinguished faculty and through observation of oral arguments.

On September 6th attendees will register at the University of Tennessee College of Law for observation of oral arguments before the Tennessee Supreme Court. After the oral argument observation, follow-up sessions will touch on appellate practice advocacy and ethical considerations.

September 6, 2017 Docket

State of Tennessee v. Lindsey Brooke Lowe, M2014-00472-SC-R11-CD
Issues:                        
(1) Whether the defendant’s statements were obtained in violation of her rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and Article 1, Section 9 of the Tennessee Constitution.
(2) Whether the trial court erred at the suppression hearing by failing to permit an offer of proof of the testimony of Dr. Pamela Auble on the issue of the voluntariness of the defendant’s Miranda waiver and her subsequent statement to police.
(3) Whether the search of the defendant’s home was unlawful under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and Article 1, § 9 of the Tennessee Constitution, because the search warrants were fatally defective under Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, since the search warrants were not exact copies and contained inconsistencies in the times and/or dates.
(4) Whether the trial court denied the defendant her constitutional right to present a defense by excluding the testimony of her treating psychiatrist that her psychological condition at the time of her statement to the authorities rendered her statement false and inaccurate.

Links to court briefs (larger documents may take longer to load):

State v. Lowe State's Brief

State v. Lowe Appellant's Reply Brief

State v. Lowe Appellant's Brief

State of Tennessee v. Angela Faye Daniel, M2015-01073-SC-R11-CD
Issue:            
Whether a police officer’s inadvertent failure to provide a copy of a search warrant to a defendant can ever constitute a “good faith mistake or technical violation” under the Exclusionary Rule Reform Act at Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-6-108.

Links to court briefs (larger documents may take longer to load):

State v. Daniel State's Brief

State v. Daniel Appellee's Brief

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