prosecutors

Two years for beating a homeless man with a flashlight and homeboy's attorney thinks the sentence was "too harsh."

Hmmmm.

A new approach to combating teen pregnancy:

National experts say a new campaign by Tennessee prosecutors to reduce teen pregnancy by emphasizing the legal and financial burdens for unwed fathers is an innovative approach.

The THP “snooper trooper” set to be sacked:

A Bredesen administration official tells The Associated Press that the Tennessee Highway Patrol is firing a trooper found to have made unauthorized background checks.

This is the sort of stuff that I find scary.

A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet.

The Lebanon Democrat has some more details on the two arrests of AJ McCall, running against Rep. Stratton Bone, 15 years ago in which the charges were dropped by friendly prosecutors:

From the office of Gray Sasser:

Some on the blogs have wondered why DUI records of AJ McCall would be sent to his wife...maybe as a warning?

Tennessee doesn’t require sex offenders to register with the state’s sex crime registry if their conviction came while they were minors. On its face it makes sense. The justice system has a bias toward protecting children’s identities.

Today, I can write about another sheriff that groped a deputy.

A former sheriff groped a deputy and grabbed her buttocks several times while she was employed at his office, the deputy testified Tuesday.

USA Today gives up some examples of the information those vetting Vice-Presidential candidates are likely finding: