Do you practice criminal law in TN?

The federal challenges to its rule of man grand jury methods are ongoing and have been since the early 1900's when it departed greatly from the federal model.

The Supreme Court recommend Habeas review of TN's grand jury process and with certainty made it clear the process was not rooted in the rule of law.

Title 22's language may be getting some tuning as it basically allows the Court Clerk/Jury Coordinator to pick the Jury Pool straight out of his or her little black book, facebook account or thin air.

Why does this matter?

TN has some unusual rulings with regards to grand jury proceedings and indictments.

Correction; rose v mitchell was 1979 and hobby was 1984.

These two opened jury matters that had been ignored for 30 years prior in Flynn 1958 and again, the challenges to the methods are ongoing but they aren't fashionable and tend to result in ostracizing.

State of Tennessee v Antonio Crenshaw 2015 seems to be still for now but I believe more attacks are on the way.

I'll see if I can't dig out the case law regarding habeas dismissal with prejudice directly.