Editor’s note: The Tennessee Supreme Court announced Tuesday the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts “will make a significant budget request to support increasing the attorney hourly rate to $80” in its budget request for the next fiscal year. It says the state’s current rate, unchanged since 1997, is the lowest in the nation at […]
A teenager charged with attempted murder was handed an opportunity in Johnson City Juvenile Court that the mother of the man he shot hopes he will use to his advantage.
The attorney for a 17-year-old charged with murder in what authorities have indicated was a gun sale gone wrong this week wants to keep the media from covering a transfer hearing set in May.
Johnson City police investigators recovered 15 shell casings from the scene of a deadly shooting Wednesday, according to testimony in the teenagerâs detention hearing on Thursday.
Investigator Shane Malone also testified that Darius W. Adler, 17, of Johnson City, told police he fired off 17 rounds at a man heâd arranged a meeting with to buy a gun.
Adler was charged with first-degree murder, especially aggravated robbery, possession of schedule III drug for resale and simple possession of schedule VI drug on Wednesday.