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Yes — felonies are reduced to misdemeanors in Shelby County courtrooms every week. It is one of the most common good outcomes in criminal defense, and one of the least explained. Nobody publishes how it actually happens, so here is the honest version: the four ways a Tennessee felony comes back down, when each one […]
A misdemeanor on a background check follows you into every job application, apartment lease, and licensing board review — often for something that happened years ago and never repeated. Tennessee law provides real paths to remove misdemeanors from your record, but the paths depend entirely on how the case ended. Here is the map. If […]
If a Memphis officer handed you a piece of paper instead of taking you to jail, you were probably issued a misdemeanor citation in lieu of arrest under T.C.A. § 40-7-118. People routinely misread these. It looks like a traffic ticket, so they treat it like one — and then a missed booking date turns […]