TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Dec 4, 2015

The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TDAGC) will no longer contract with outside attorneys to handle cases when a local prosecutor has a conflict – a practice that led to a criminal investigation of Nashville prosecutor Glenn Funk. The Tennessean reports Executive Director Jerry Estes said the change was made before he started in the role July 1. "The practice of retaining attorneys outside the conference had pretty much stopped," Estes said. "Usually it had been someone who was a retired (district attorney) or somebody who was an elected (district attorney) like General Funk was." Funk will not face criminal prosecution related to his employment at the TDAGC.