Judge Monte Watkins signed the order to vacate Claude Garrett’s 1992 murder conviction, one month after arson experts said it's unlikely Garrett sparked the fire which killed Lorie Lee Lance.
A jury convicted Claude Garrett of killing his girlfriend when their home caught fire in 1992 and now a judge will decide if there was ever enough evidence to suggest Garrett intentionally set the fire.
Billed as one of the most anticipated trials in recent Nashville history, former Metro Nashville Police officer Andrew Delke accepted a highly controversial plea deal in the shooting death of Daniel Hambrick.
Attorney General Herbert Slatery says he wouldn’t appeal the resentencing of a Tennessee death row inmate to life in prison after initially resisting the move just two years prior