Powerful traffic court defense if ‘driving on revoked’: Necessity

If you signed the criminal complaint against you (traffic ticket) and are in the crowd of people awaiting to confront your accuser, the hallowed State of Tennessee, you have a defense that came from the lips of the world’s most innocent, yet most accused, person. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio And that is the […]

Using pleasure, whimsey to defend right to travel

The ideas of liberty of movement are worth exploring because they are positive benefit to Chattanooga and Hamilton County and and encouragement of capitalism and entrepreneurship. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio As we have seen in transportation administrative notice, the freedom of movement has a keyword. That is pleasure. The roads exist for the […]

Does attorney know legal landscape in city has shifted?

Attorney Robin Flores is a lawyer who regularly engages in lawsuits against cities and counties for abusive police practices. Mr. Flores, also a member of the NAACP, may be unaware that the legal landscape in Chattanooga has shifted in favor of the citizenry and against high-handed and gangland-style cop departments. How so? The earth moved, […]

New stimulus for Hammond chief: Traffic stops limited

The toughest question Gino Bennett asks me is, “Are you saying that a person who is committing a violation is not under the authority of our officer?” Mr. Bennett is the chief lieutenant of Jim Hammond, Hamilton County’s elected sheriff, and is almost always attending to the county’s most powerful man as his director of […]

Last party likely to help minorities end city oppression: Lawyers

Transportation administrative notice is coming up on its 1st year as a newfangled reform doctrine and public document, hanging over the heads of Chattanooga-area city governments and the state’s executive branch. Those who know the most about it are readers of this website and listeners of my weekday show at 1 p.m. at 92.7 NoogaRadio. […]

Gentry readies petition for remonstrance, asks for traffic stop reform detail

A remarkable project is about to be birthed in which John Gentry, a certified public accountant who resides in Goodlettsville, Tenn., tells the general assembly about innumerable grievances brought against the people by the dominant private interest in Tennessee, namely members of the bar — attorneys and judges, who operate as a combine to deprive […]

Sideways chicken bone in Mayor Berke’s throat

This letter to assistant city attorney Keith Reisman will get no answer, under the argument that the city attorney’s office does not give legal advice to anybody but the city. But it is the key question pending reform in Chattanooga of a major police abuse of the public that Mayor Andy Berke continues to practice. […]

Lawyer meeting notes: Traffic stop reform in all its fruits, starting here

Chattanooga police officer Sgt. Wayne Jefferson talks to members of the citizens police academy in Chattanooga. (Photo David Tulis) Police powers reform in Tennessee is beginning in Chattanooga. Here are the main arguments for directing city police to respect the limits of the statute at Tenn. Code Ann. § Title 55, the state transportation statute, […]

Berke leaves cops exposed to fatal threats at traffic stops

A cop runs toward the action, his service weapon drawn. (Photo National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund) The killing Thursday of a Georgia police officer occurred in the most dangerous kind of encounter officers face with a potentially hostile public. And that is the so called traffic stop. Traffic stops are more accurately called transportation […]

Protesters decry beating of singer Toney; council members flick out

City hall Tuesday night is lit by a spotlight that says police act like thugs when they should act like public servants. Nearly 40 angry people of color chase members of Chattanooga’s city council from their dais tonight by demanding justice and crying for deliverance from police thuggery in Chattanooga and Hamilton County. By David […]