This appeal concerns the trial court’s decision to charge the costs of a conservatorship proceeding against the petitioner under Tennessee Code Annotated § 34-1-114. The petitioner sought a conservatorship for the respondent—the petitioner’s 84-year-old father—to protect his father and to prevent him from wasting his assets. The court found clear and convincing evidence that the respondent was a disabled person in need of a conservatorship and that it was in the respondent’s best interest that the petitioner be appointed his conservator. But the court charged the costs of the proceedings to the petitioner rather than the property of the respondent. The court reasoned, inter alia, that the petitioner benefited from the conservatorship and that the respondent’s need for a conservatorship was “borderline” and “not clear cut. ” The petitioner appeals. Having reviewed the trial court’s discretionary decisions pursuant to the three-part analysis set forth in Lee Medical Inc. v. Beecher, 312 S.W.3d 515, 524 (Tenn. 2010), we have determined that the trial court’s decision to charge the costs of the proceedings to the petitioner was based on an erroneous assessment of the relevant facts and a misapplication of the relevant legal principles. Accordingly, we vacate the decision and remand with instructions to assess all the guardian ad litem fees against the property of the respondent, the amount of which has already been approved, and to assess against the property of the respondent the reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees and costs the petitioner incurred in the trial court and on appeal, the amount of which is to be determined on remand. The trial court shall also determine the reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees and costs incurred by the attorney ad litem in this appeal and assess those charges against the property of the respondent.

Petitioner seeks accelerated review of the denial of her motion to recuse the trial judge. The trial court deemed the motion repetitive. We agree.

This appeal concerns a local board of education’s decision to dismiss a tenured teacher. The teacher sought judicial review of his dismissal in the trial court. The trial court found no grounds for dismissal and reversed the board’s decision. The board appeals. We conclude that the teacher was insubordinate in showing his class a video containing profanity without parental consent. However, this lone act of insubordination did not warrant the drastic step of dismissal given the teacher’s long record of good service. We affirm the trial court’s judgment as modified.

An inmate in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction petitioned for a writ of mandamus. On its own motion, the trial court dismissed the petition for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. We affirm.

This appeal presents two issues: (1) whether Appellant preserved his evidentiary issues concerning the trial court’s admission of video evidence in a jury trial, and (2) whether, following a bench trial, the trial court made sufficient findings under Rule 52.01 when rejecting Appellant’s COBRA claim. Because Appellant failed to include the evidentiary issues in a motion for new trial as required by Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e), and because Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure 13(b) and 36(b) are not applicable, we conclude that Appellant waived the evidentiary issues. Further, because the trial court’s order does not make sufficient findings, we cannot conduct a meaningful review of the COBRA issue, and we remand for compliance with Rule 52.01.

The trial court determined Defendants/Appellants were liable for damages arising from negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract. We reverse.

Seventeen-year-old Antonio Demetrius Adkisson (a.k.a. Antonio Demetrius Turner, Jr.) (“the Defendant”) was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of two victims. The Gibson County Juvenile Court (“the juvenile court”) held a transfer hearing and found it appropriate to transfer the Defendant to the Gibson County Circuit Court (“the trial court”) to be prosecuted as an adult. After a jury trial, during which the Defendant’s videotaped statements were admitted into evidence, the Defendant was convicted of two counts of the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder. On direct appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed. See State v. Adkisson, No. W2022-01009- CCA-R3-CD, 2024 WL 1252173 (Tenn. Crim. App. Mar. 25, 2024), perm. app. granted, (Tenn. Aug. 14, 2024). The Defendant requested permission to appeal to this Court, alleging (1) the juvenile court lacked probable cause to believe he committed the charged offenses, as required for transfer by Tennessee Code Annotated section 37-1-134(a)(4)(A), and (2) the trial court erred in admitting his confession at trial because he did not validly waive his right to remain silent and his confession was involuntary. We hold that the Defendant was properly transferred to the trial court. We further hold that the Defendant validly waived his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, but his confession was unlawfully coerced in violation of the Due Process Clause and thus inadmissible at trial. Having found reversible error on that basis, we vacate the Defendant’s convictions of second-degree murder and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

The grandmother of a man who died while incarcerated at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center has filed a federal lawsuit against the county. According to the Nashville Banner newsletter, Joseph Adam Denton died in May 2025 after choking on a chicken meal while in custody. The lawsuit states Denton had previously had all of his teeth removed and had requested a soft diet before his incarceration. The complaint alleges other inmates attempted to alert guards and medical staff when Denton began choking and claims jail personnel failed to intervene until after he lost consciousness, briefly regained consciousness and later went into cardiac arrest. The lawsuit alleges violations of Denton’s constitutional rights and Tennessee law and seeks $5 million in damages.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen has asked President Donald Trump to commute the sentences of all federal inmates serving time for nonviolent marijuana-related offenses, according to a letter posted on social media and reported on by the Commercial Appeal. Cohen and eight other members of Congress wrote that approximately 3,000 people are federally incarcerated on nonviolent marijuana convictions and urged the administration to provide reentry services for those granted commutations. Cohen, a Democrat who has represented Memphis in the U.S. House of Representatives for 19 years, announced in May that he will not seek reelection. During his time in Congress, Cohen has co-sponsored multiple bills aimed at legalizing marijuana.

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday vacated the second-degree murder convictions of Antonio Demetrius Adkisson, holding that his confession was involuntary and should not have been admitted at trial. In 2017, the 17-year-old was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in Milan, tried as an adult after a juvenile court transfer and ultimately convicted by a jury of two counts of second-degree murder. The court upheld the transfer decision and found that Adkisson had validly waived his Miranda rights, but ruled that his confession was nonetheless involuntary under the totality of the circumstances, constituting a violation of the Fifth and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and the Tennessee Constitution. As a result, the court vacated his convictions and remanded the case for further proceedings, over a partial dissent from Justice Sarah Campbell arguing that the confession was not unconstitutionally coercive. Read more in a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts.