Most Tennessee drivers will simply take a traffic ticket on the chin, pay the fine, pay the increased insurance premiums and accept the other negative effects of the citation. However, some motorists don't have this luxury, and they choose to fight the ticket in...

A long time ago, there was a sitcom called “The Patty Duke Show” in which two cousins were mirror images of each other. The rambunctious identical cousin got into mischief and tried to wriggle out of trouble by blaming her soft-spoken twin. Two Memphis...

As regular readers of our Memphis criminal defense blog know, we use this space to try to bring to light incidents and issues from across Tennessee that can be interesting to people here in the city. We read recently a newspaper account of a law enforcement...

Early this week, a handful of uninformed leaders of the Memphis Police Department stood around a podium with a large display of confiscated firearms before them as they announced the results of Operation Summer Heat II. The eight-week crackdown began June 9 and...

Addiction is an illness -- and just like you catch a cold by being around someone who's sick -- you can also catch an addiction by spending time around people who suffer from the same. Sooner or later, they'll ask you to pop a pill and, if you do it too many times,...