TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 20, 2018

Davidson County attorney Karl Emmanuel Pulley today received a public censure from the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court. In representing a client in a criminal case, Pulley failed to request a jury instruction as to the lesser offense of facilitation, which was fairly raised by the proof thereby waiving any chance his client had of being convicted of a lesser charge. In response to a post-conviction petition in which Pulley’s client alleged that Pulley rendered constitutionally deficient representation, the state, rather than attempting to defend the convictions, entered into an agreed order vacating the convictions and the client was permitted to enter a plea to a lesser charge for a shorter sentence.
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