Kirsten Fiscus

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kirsten Fiscus

A Davidson County jury found former Tennessee Rep. Jeremy Durham guilty of DUI and felony reckless endangerment charges after he crashed his car and injured another driver during a night downtown in 2022. The jury deliberated for about an hour to reach their verdict. Durham was found guilty on five charges — two counts of DUI, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia — and not guilty on a felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.

1 week ago | tennessean.com | Kirsten Fiscus

A Davidson County jury found former Tennessee Rep. Jeremy Durham guilty of DUI and felony reckless endangerment charges after he crashed his car and injured another driver during a night downtown in 2022. The jury deliberated for about an hour to reach their verdict. Durham was found guilty on five charges — two counts of DUI, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia — and not guilty on a felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kirsten Fiscus

President Donald Trump named a Tennessee woman as his first judicial nomination since returning to office for a second term. In a social media post late May 1, Trump announced Whitney Hermandorfer as his pick for the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Hermandorfer currently serves as director of the strategic litigation unit in Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti's office. The sixth circuit covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The court sits in Cincinnati, Ohio.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kirsten Fiscus |Evan Mealins

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled for execution on May 22, will die by lethal injection if the process moves forward. Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair, declined to pick, his attorney Kelley Henry, a supervisory assistant federal public defender, said. When an inmate does not choose, the method defaults to lethal injection. It's not the first time Smith has been given this grim decision and declined.

2 weeks ago | tennessean.com | Kirsten Fiscus

An argument turned deadly at a Clarksville construction site April 29 leaving one man dead and a Springfield man behind bars. Clarksville police were called to 1663 Old Russellville Pike shortly after 9:30 a.m. after someone called the language line to report an assault, according to a statement from the department. The argument between the two men, working at the site, had escalated to a stabbing, the person reported.