TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 31, 2022

A former Knox County Sheriff’s chief — who is accused of using the agency’s drug fund and credit card as his personal piggy bank and treating subordinates as his private construction crew — is no longer mentally competent to stand trial, his attorney says. Robert Kurtz says that David Henderson, the ex-chief of the narcotics unit, is showing signs of dementia and cannot meaningfully assist in the defense of federal charges filed against him earlier this year. The trial was set to begin Nov. 8, Tennessee Lookout reports. Given the claim, the court agreed to a competency hearing.