TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 8, 2023

In a rare rebuke from the bench, and one of his last acts before retiring, Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Mark Fishburn called law enforcement actions in the Paul Shane Garrett case “malfeasance” and accused the district attorney of knowingly leaving an innocent man in jail for a decade. He went on to say the case highlighted “intentional wrongdoing on so many occasions and at all levels of local law enforcement.” Read more from the Nashville Banner. Garrett was incarcerated for 10 years for a crime former District Attorney Torry Johnson’s office and the Metro Nashville Police Department later concluded there was “no credible evidence” he committed. In 2021, the Conviction Review Unit under District Attorney Glenn Funk vacated Garrett’s conviction. Garrett won a $1.2 million settlement this week, the Tennessean reports.