Listen A Supreme Court decision in the 1980s known as Tennessee v. Garner is back in the public eye. It came up during the court proceedings for Nashville police officer Andrew Delke, who this week pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge for a fatal shooting in July.
Nashville Grand Jury Indicts Officer Andrew Delke On First-Degree Murder Charge
A grand jury has indicted Metro Nashville Police Officer Andrew Delke with a charge of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Daniel Hambrick in July 2018. Delke’s attorney says the officer will not plead guilty and will fight the charges at trial.
What We Learned During Nashville Officer’s Homicide Hearing
Listen This week, Nashville moved a step closer to a seeing a police officer stand trial in a homicide case. If Andrew Delke is convicted, it would be the first time for actions by an on-duty Metro officer.
As Nashville Officer’s Homicide Hearing Concludes, Legal Teams Tell Starkly Different Stories
Battle lines were drawn Saturday by competing legal teams as they concluded the preliminary hearing for the homicide case against Nashville Officer Andrew Delke.
Nashville Judge Decides What Can Be Used As Evidence In Police Homicide Case
The Davidson County judge considering a homicide case against Metro Police Officer Andrew Delke is deciding what evidence should be allowed in a critical pre-trial hearing next month.
Homicide Case Against Nashville Police Officer Could Spend Years In The Courts
Listen Court dates have already been rescheduled twice for Nashville police Officer Andrew Delke, who faces a homicide charge in the July fatal shooting of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick.
Nashville Officer Charged With Homicide Stopped, Searched Black Drivers More Often, Data Shows
Listen A white Nashville officer is under intense scrutiny after fatally shooting a black man while he was fleeing, allegedly with a gun. Now, as Officer Andrew Delke faces a homicide charge, one Vanderbilt doctoral candidate has crunched more than a year of his traffic stop data, which suggests some trends in his style of […]
Police Officer Charged With Homicide For On-Duty Shooting
Updated 6 p.m. For the first time in the city’s history, a Nashville police officer faces a charge of criminal homicide in connection with his duties.
Portraits Begin To Emerge Of Man, Police Officer Involved In Fatal Nashville Shooting
Listen This post has been updated to include additonal information about the Nashville Police Department’s Juvenile Crime Task Force. Amid the investigation into last week’s shooting in North Nashville, a picture has begun to emerge of the man who died and the police officer who killed him. The exact circumstances behind the death of 25-year-old […]
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