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Jerry H. Summers publishes ‘Tennessee Trivia No. 1,’ his sixth book
Chattanooga lawyer Jerry H. Summers has just released his sixth book, “Tennessee Trivia No. 1.” It is a compilation of short stories and photos that bring southeast Tennessee’s past to life. The reviews are in and they are positive. Sam Elliott, a Chattanooga attorney, author and historian called Summers’ new book, “a well-researched volume of
Tennessee Innocence Project to help the wrongfully convicted
States with similar incarceration rates to that of Tennessee have far more exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations. For example, there have been 61 exonerations of North Carolina defendants, 57 of people convicted in Louisiana, and 96 exonerations from Michigan. Only 21 exonerations are listed from Tennessee It’s unlikely that our courts are
The life of the law: an interview with Jerry Summers
“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience,” the renowned jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said decades ago. The context of the remark was a series of lectures on the common law given in 1880-81. Justice Holmes wasn’t saying the law is illogical. He was saying the law is not