Drew Farmer, Attorney at Law

10/31/2023

The Shelby County District Attorney said the move would help low-income Memphians save on high court costs.

06/12/2023

Calculating a potential prison sentence, with some caveats, in the case of former President Donald Trump's indictment.

05/25/2023

The sentence for Stewart Rhodes was the longest so far in the federal investigation of the Capitol attack and the first issued to a defendant convicted of sedition.

01/24/2023

A jury found the militia members guilty of engaging in a seditious conspiracy to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory on Jan. 6, 2021.

01/17/2023

JACKSON, TENN (WNBJ)- “Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's law," is now in effect in Tennessee- the law named after children whos parents were killed in crashes caused by drunk drivers requires an impaired driver convicted of vehicular homicide to pay restitution in the form of child support. “It's...

01/13/2023

11/30/2022

Cars have always been a minefield when it comes to privacy rights verses public safety, and now, two important questions are finally in front of a U.S. circuit court: Is live streaming protected in the same way as recording, and does the passenger in a stopped car have a First Amendment right to rec...

11/08/2022

"[O]n the eve of Election Day, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy and another district attorney in West Tennessee - Frederick Agee" (Gibson, Crockett, and Haywood Counties) - "went on record about ma*****na."

" 'Families have been torn apart, people lives have been ruined because of ma*****na prohibition,' Agee added."

" 'We are never going to defeat a plant. We have spent billions and billions and billions of taxpayer dollars trying to defeat a plant. It's not going to happen,' Agee said."

Good for him for going on record.

Steve Mulroy and another West Tennessee D.A. argue no matter how vote goes Tuesday in Arkansas, they won't prioritize prosecuting ma*****na possession in TN.

11/06/2022

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan v. De George, the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federa...

08/08/2022

Steve Mulroy's election as prosecutor of Shelby County represents a new chapter for the county’s criminal legal system.

08/04/2022

The police in Louisville, Ky., fatally shot Ms. Taylor during a nighttime raid on her apartment. Officials said two officers had lied in order to get a search warrant for Ms. Taylor’s home.

07/15/2022

Facts.

A lawyer on TikTok is going viral after sharing why she often suggests that shoppers avoid using self-checkout lanes.

06/15/2022

The ruling rejected an effort to move the Bronx Zoo elephant to a sanctuary—and ended the furthest-advancing animal rights case in U.S. judicial history.

06/06/2022

Federal prosecutors on Monday added seditious conspiracy to the list of charges five Proud Boys leaders are facing over their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. A super…

06/03/2022

Thug was backed by Machine Gun Kelly and music exec Kevin Liles, but prosecutors warned that other gang members feared the rapper “would kill them and their family.”

05/02/2022

The move comes after Lee temporarily halted the ex*****on of Oscar Franklin Smith an hour before he was set to die by lethal injection last month.

04/08/2022

“The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the 116th justice — and the first Black woman — to serve on the top U.S. court.”

Justice Jackson

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is President Joe Biden's first Supreme Court nominee. She will replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

04/07/2022

03/08/2022

Member of the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters was turned in to the FBI by his teenage son, who testified against him.

03/04/2022

Justices vote 6-3 to reverse appeal court’s decision that asked for new penalty phase

02/25/2022

President Joe Biden has selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court, according to a source who has been notified about the decision, setting in motion a historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation.

02/22/2022

A jury in Brunswick, Ga., found defendants Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty of hate crimes in the 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.

02/15/2022

Nine Sandy Hook Elementary School families have announced a settlement with Re*****on Arms, maker of the AR-15 used in the massacre.

01/29/2022

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Middle Tennessee county can no longer require misdemeanor...

01/13/2022

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment yesterday, which was unsealed today, charging 11 defendants with seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that wa...

01/13/2022

01/07/2022

A judge announced the sentences in a Glynn County, Ga., courtroom Friday, about six weeks after a jury found the men guilty in a case widely seen as racially motivated.

12/23/2021

Hundreds of young people in Rutherford County will receive money in a settlement after the juvenile justice system there illegally arrested and jailed

12/23/2021

Supreme Court sets special hearing to consider whether to pause vaccine or test/mask mandates issued by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (for large employers) and the Department of Health and Human Services (for facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding).

12/18/2021

Tonight, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejects preliminary challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency temporary standard requiring large employers to implement rules requiring either vaccines or testing and masking. The challengers already have asked the Supreme Court to get involved.

11/22/2021

Vols win.

11/17/2021

The man who stood behind former Vice President Mike Pence’s Senate dais in a horned, coyote-fur headdress, red, white and blue face paint and a shirtless display of his tattooed torso on Jan. 6 will spend the next 41 months in a federal prison.

11/12/2021

Stephen K. Bannon was indicted today by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress stemming from his failure to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.

11/09/2021

See Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021, H.R. 3684, 117th Congress, section 24220 (a.k.a. "the infrastructure bill") (presented to the President Nov. 8, 2021)

Congress has created a new requirement for automakers: Find a high-tech way to keep drunken people from driving cars. It’s one of the mandates along with a burst of new spending aimed at improving …

11/05/2021

"[T]he racially lopsided jury . . . underscores the enduring challenges that American courts face in applying what seems to be a simple constitutional principle: that equal justice 'requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process,' as Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh put it in a ruling from 2019."

Here, "the 12-person jury ha[s] been selected from a panel that included 12 Black people and 36 white people — and yet . . . the actual jury that was selected has only one African American male on it.'"

The guidelines that allowed the judge to seat a panel with one Black juror were meant to remove bias from the process but have come to be considered a failure by many legal scholars.

10/13/2021

The federal government is appealing a lower court ruling that overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence.

10/09/2021

Story out of Middle TN.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

10/01/2021

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday refused to block New York City's requirement that its public school teachers and employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.

09/30/2021

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Cornelia Clark, who died last week, lay in state at the State Capitol on Wednesday.