In 2017, a Washington County jury convicted the Petitioner, Jamarcus Jackson, of misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and second degree murder as a lesser-included offense of first degree murder. The trial court imposed a forty-year sentence. The Petitioner appealed and this court affirmed the judgments. State v. Jackson, No. E2017-01182-CCA-R3-CD, 2018 WL 3409927, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. July 12, 2018), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Nov. 15, 2018). Thereafter, the Petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction relief, which the post-conviction court denied following a hearing. We affirmed that decision on appeal. Jackson v. State, No. E2021-00642-CCA-R3-PC, 2022 WL 984341 (Tenn. Crim. App. Feb. 23, 2022), no perm. app. filed. In 2024, the Petitioner filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. The trial court summarily dismissed the petition as untimely and without merit. On appeal, the Petitioner contends that his petition is entitled to a tolling of the statute of limitations because of the unavailability of the newly discovered evidence. After review, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

A Cheatham County jury convicted the Petitioner, Demario Quintez Driver, of rape and coercion of a witness. On appeal, this court affirmed the trial court’s judgments. State v. Driver, No. M2021-00538-CCA-R3-CD, 2022 WL 1284978, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. April 29, 2022), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Sept. 29, 2022). The Petitioner filed a timely post-conviction petition, and after a hearing on the petition, the post-conviction court denied relief. On appeal, the Petitioner maintains that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel at trial and that the cumulative errors of his trial counsel warrant relief. After review, we affirm the post-conviction court’s judgment.

This is a healthcare liability action against a surgeon and the hospital where the surgeon practiced. The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendants. We affirm.

A property owner sued his neighbors, claiming that he acquired title to a part of their land by adverse possession or, in the alternative, that he held a prescriptive easement. He asserted additional causes of action against one of the neighbors, including private nuisance, trespass to land, and forcible entry and detainer. The neighbors sought dismissal of the action via Tennessee Rule of Procedure 12.02(6) motions. The trial court dismissed the claims for adverse possession and prescriptive easement based on Tennessee Code Annotated § 28-2-110(a). It dismissed all other claims except for private nuisance based on deficiencies in the complaint. We vacate the dismissal of the prescriptive easement claim because facts warranting application of the statutory bar do not clearly appear on the face of the complaint. Because the appellant waived review of all other issues, we otherwise affirm.

The appellant filed an accelerated interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of a recusal motion pursuant to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 10B. However, the trial judge has presented this case to the presiding judge of his district, pursuant to local rule, for another judge to hear the matter by interchange. Thus, we determine that the appellant’s Rule 10B appeal is moot and dismiss the appeal.

State employee received proton beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Insurance company denied authorization of the treatment as “investigational” and not “medically necessary” pursuant to the insurance plan and its medical policy. After exhausting administrative remedies, the employee submitted an appeal to the Tennessee Claims Commission, alleging breach of contract. The Claims Commission found that the treatment was not a covered expense, granting summary judgment in favor of the State. We now affirm.

A Knoxville police officer has been suspended after he was captured on video knocking a woman to the ground with a punch, straddling her and swinging at her again, Knox News reports. The Knoxville Police Department released a statement Friday announcing preliminary steps in its investigation of the incident, which occurred around 10 p.m. EDT Thursday in the 2600 block of Woodbine Avenue. “The situation escalated and (the woman) was detained following a use of force by on-scene officers,” the KPD statement said. She was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment. KPD did not name the officer who was suspended. The video, recorded by a bystander from a front porch, was shared on Facebook and accumulated more than 57,000 views.

State lawmakers are reconsidering how accomplices to murder are charged under the state’s felony murder law, which allows accomplices to face equal or harsher punishments than the actual killer, Local 3 News reports. During a Senate Judiciary Committee summer study session, lawmakers heard testimony from Mindy Dodd, who served decades in prison for conspiring to murder her husband and stepfather despite not being at the crime scene before her sentence was commuted in 2021. Former District Attorney Stephen Crump argued the law fairly deters crime, while Senate Minority Leader Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, said it can unjustly punish people with little or no intent to kill. No vote was taken, but proposals to amend the law could be filed next year when the legislature reconvenes.

The following attorneys were suspended by the Tennessee Supreme Court on Aug. 19, 2025, for failing to comply with Rule 21 of the Rules of the Tennessee Supreme Court, which requires mandatory continuing legal education, during the 2024 compliance year. Attorneys who have since complied with CLE requirements, and for whom notice has been received from the court, are noted as reinstated.

President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for overstays and breaking the law, Reuters reports. Directives from the State Department this year have ordered U.S. diplomats abroad to be vigilant against applicants the administration could view as hostile to the United States or with a history of political activism. About 4,000 visas were canceled because visitors broke the law, and 200 to 300 were revoked for terrorism, a State Department official said Monday. In April, five students from the University of Memphis and nine from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville reportedly had their visas terminated.