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Charges against Cassen Jackson-Garrison, standing at right, a former Oak Ridge Police Department police officer, were dismissed this year after two years of supervised probation. Jackson-Garrison had agreed to plead guilty to statutory rape and official misconduct in 2017. His attorney, Greg Isaacs, standing next to Jackson-Garrison, said Jackson-Garrison had accepted responsibility for the allegations, and he compared his client’s childhood story to the one portrayed in the movie “The Blind Side.” The probation was a judicial diversion, allowing the felony charges to be dismissed if Jackson-Garrison complied with the terms and conditions. Jackson-Garrison and Isaacs are pictured above during a plea agreement hearing in Anderson County Criminal Court on Monday, June 12, 2017. (File photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
SEVIERVILLE â A grand jury will review first-degree murder charges against a Sevierville man accused of killing his mother after Judge Dwight Stokes found there was sufficient evidence he acted with premeditation.
The manhunt for Josh Carr put the community on edge last year, after news spread that he was accused of killing his mother on Sept. 2, 2020, even as his grandmother tried to stop him. He was arrested two days later in Michigan, and he has been in the Sevier County Jail since he was brought back to face the charges.
Carr, 31, was wearing a suit and tie for his preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon.
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Parents of boy killed in boating accident push for Florida bill that would require safety device
Family believes a kill switch could have prevented Ethan Isaacs’ death
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Ethan Isaacs (Mindy and Greg Isaacs)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The family of a 10-year-old Florida boy killed in a boating accident is pushing for a way to make a day on the water safer.
State lawmakers will soon take up “Ethan’s Law,” which was introduced in the boy’s honor, according to News 6 partner News4Jax.
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“We always thought he would accomplish great things because of who he is,” Ethan Isaacs’ mother, Mindy Isaacs, remembered. “He was extremely bright, gifted.”
SARASOTA – In November, a Sarasota youth sailor was fatally slashed by a spinning boat propeller after his coach triggered the throttle and tumbled overboard.
Ten-year-old Ethan Isaacs’ death has led to a wrongful death lawsuit by his family and a proposed bill in his name called “Ethan’s Law,” authored by Sarasota state Rep. Fiona McFarland.
The proposed legislation would require the pilots of boats less than 26 feet long to wear a kill switch device that automatically shuts off the engine if the operator is thrown overboard. Seven other states have similar laws in place, and the U.S. Coast Guard will adopt the same rule in 2021.