The holiday season is here, and you may be visiting friends or family here in the Nashville area. You could attend plenty of parties and holiday gatherings with those you love, which means you may travel between locations and/or to and from a hotel. During those travels, you could end up gaining the attention of law enforcement officers who are probably out in force during this season looking for drunk drivers. If you end up getting stopped and charged with DUI, preparing your criminal defense will become a top priority.
The holidays could find you needing a Tennessee criminal defense
Cyntoia Brown to serve 51 years before eligible for parole
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that sentencing juvenile offenders to life in prison without the possibility of parole violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments. The court had previously ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to juvenile defendants.
