TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on May 2, 2023

Hamilton County Chief Homicide Prosecutor Michael Dowd was asked to resign Sunday by District Attorney Coty Wamp after Dowd criticized the TBI Crime Lab for its delay in returning ballistics testing results, News Channel 9 reports. Dowd’s comments were made in court during a hearing for a murder case set for trial on May 23. Dowd said the suspect was indicted in 2021 and TBI had failed to produce results for two years despite an expedition request. Dowd submitted his resignation Sunday, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. Wamp said a replacement would be named shortly.