'Ordeal' over for woman whose birds were seized in TWRA raid
We are pleased to announce that all charges have been dismissed against Ben Raybin’s client, who had been arrested for regulatory violations regarding her birds of prey. Read Here.
Judge calls TWRA raid 'illegal' and demands seized birds be returned to owner
A Davidson County judge ruled the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency illegally searched the home of a Davidson County woman. Read more here.
Nashville criminal defense lawyer David Raybin called Nashville airport police response "clearly inappropriate."
“Nashville airport officials refuse to answer questions after officers threaten arrests” Read more here.
Gov. Bill Lee grants clemency to 16, expedites parole eligibility for 30 following state law update
“Congratulations to Ben Raybin’s client, who was among 13 people granted pardons on Thursday. A pardon restores civil rights lost after a felony conviction and allows for the record to be completely expunged. Only about 5% of applicants receive clemency in Tennessee.” Read more here.
Attorney David Raybin discusses recent Tennessee Supreme Court decision against life sentences against juvenile offenders.
“Raybin & Weissman, P.C. discuss the Tennessee Supreme Court decision that juvenile life sentences are unconstitutional” Read more here.
Our very own David Weissman, represents rural hospital owner who is Sueing the city of Celina, TN
“When seconds count, some people in the Midstate must go an extra 17 miles to get emergency care. For this reason, a Clay County hospital owner is taking the city and county to court.” Read more here.
Attorney David Raybin, hopeful for a chance at parole for clients
“Why Tennessee juveniles sentenced to life for murder now have path to release.” Read more here.
Attorney Ben Raybin speaks on behalf of Paavola family
“Man, who killed gym owner with ax in Nashville, sentenced with murder.” Read more here.
Ben Rayin Representing Deputy Hoover in Excessive Force Case
Attorney Ben Raybin is representing former Putnam County Sheriff’s deputy Micheal Hoover in an excessive force case against another deputy. See the Channel 5 news report here
Criminal Defense attorney David Raybin defending officer
“Ex-officer convicted in fatal shooting out of Nashville jail.” See the ABC news report here.
Nashville lawyer David Raybin explains Tennesees's "trigger law"
“‘There is no exception’ Nashville attorney breaks down Tennessee’s trigger law.” Read more here.
Nashville defense attorney David Raybin, says many people have come to him with how to get abortion pills legally
“Tennessee’s abortion battleground changes after Roe.” Read more here.
"'Active discussions' are underway about a class action lawsuit against DCS."
Attorney David Raybin gives his thoughts after handling similar cases. Read more here.
David Raybin is a legal expert, vocalizing the truth
“Top legal expert calls truth in sentencing law ‘a disaster’.” Read more here.
Former prosecutor David Raybin, explains Nashville Waffle House Shooting Case
“Jury Selection Starting in Nashville Waffle House Shooting.” Read more here.
Tennessee Life Sentence Parole Eligibility May Be Reduced
Natalie Allison Nashville Tennessean 4.27.2021 category: In The News A major criminal justice reform initiative pushed for years by advocates has finally passed a significant milestone in Tennessee. It’s a measure that would offer a life-altering second chance for inmates serving life in prison to prove they have been rehabilitated. Currently, a...
Ben Raybin and the Tennessee Supreme Court Case Ruling
The Tennessee Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision today in favor of attorney Ben Raybin’s client, who had been charged with a drug offense. In the case, law enforcement surrounded Ben’s client home while looking for a wanted suspect. She finally came out at gunpoint and eventually agreed to let...
Explosive Growth of Life Sentences in Tennessee Hits Minorities Hardest, Report Finds
Adam Tamburin – Nashville Tennessean 2.18.2021 Tennessee’s criminal justice system increasingly relies on life sentences, a new analysis shows, a phenomenon straining the state’s prisons and budget. The population of so-called “lifers” in Tennessee prisons has grown by 87% since 1970, according to the report released Wednesday by Washington D.C. nonprofit The Sentencing Project. An...
Self-Defense Laws Could Protect Man Who Killed Prankster During Fake Robbery
David Raybin speaks on self-defense laws in recent interviews with WKRN and WSMV. Read more about this fake robbery incident & David’s input: https://www.wkrn.com/news/crime-tracker/self-defense-laws-could-protect-man-who-killed-prankster-during-fake-robbery/ https://www.wsmv.com/news/fatal-youtube-prank-gone-wrong-would-have-violated-platforms-policies/article_40ac0806-6b57-11eb-ba93-db6704dbf84d.html
Violent Robbery Suspect Was Out on Supervised Probation Based Off of Judge’s Decision
David Raybin provides insight on a local case in which he is not representing. Read more about David Raybin’s input in this WZTV news article: https://fox17.com/news/local/violent-robbery-suspect-was-out-on-supervised-probation-based-off-of-judges-decision
Claiming Unrest Potential, Officer Wants Murder Trial Moved
Potential for civil unrest has helped for David Raybin to act in the best interest of his client. Read more in this Associated Press article: https://apnews.com/article/nashville-trials-shootings-police-coronavirus-pandemic-3fcd4da94696f92a9c7635f7d862e817
Raybin & Weissman Will Appear in the Best Lawyers in America© 2021
Raybin & Weissman is pleased to announce the acceptance of the award for “Best Lawyers in America” for 2021. Read more about this prestigious award: https://www.wfmj.com/story/42654448/raybin-weissman-will-appear-in-the-best-lawyers-in-america-2021
Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Defense Attorneys Ask Parole Board to Ease Release Requirements
“High-profile Nashville attorney David Raybin asked the board to “accelerate the release of already-paroled prisoners” in a letter Friday. The Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers endorsed Raybin’s letter.” Read more in this Tennessean article about expediting necessary releases: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/27/attorneys-tennessee-parole-board-release-requirements/
Suspended Tennessee State quarterback Demry Croft enters plea on rape charges
Tennessee State University quarterback Demry Croft faced rape charges against him in court Wednesday, when he pleaded not guilty. Croft, 22, is accused of raping a female student on campus in December, according to court and university documents. He was indicted on six felony counts of rape and two counts...
Lawyers want a change of venue in trial of Nashville police Officer Andrew Delke
Lawyers representing a Nashville police officer charged with murder want the trial to be moved out of the city. Officer Andrew Delke, 26, appeared in court Thursday when his attorney David Raybin asked for a hearing to be set to debate a new trial location. Judge Monte Watkins agreed to...
Andrew Delke case: Change of venue hearing scheduled for officer charged with murder
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Nashville judge has scheduled a hearing to decide whether there will be a change of venue in the case of a Metro police officer who’s been charged with murder. Decommissioned officer Andrew Delke appeared in court Thursday morning for a brief motions hearing. His attorney,...
Raybin & Weissman, P.C. Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America
Numerous publications around the world assess the credibility of those who practice law. Best Lawyers is one of the most well-known legal peer reviews, and it has been in rotation since 1983. In 2008, Best Lawyers expanded its global reach. Today, the review is published in seventy-five countries, has over...
Suicide attempts in jail are more common than anywhere else in Williamson County
Editor’s note: This story explores suicide, including details of how people died by suicide. If you are at risk, please stop here and contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for support at 1-800-273-8255. Sasha Putala’s parents knew their son was in a poor mental state when he was arrested on...
PR push for white officer accused of killing armed black man
By Jonathan Mattise | AP February 14 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The attorney for a white police officer charged with fatally shooting an armed black man in Tennessee is calling for legal discovery documents to be sealed from members of the public. Meanwhile, a police union has launched a digital ad campaign seeking...
Officer Andrew Delke’s lawyer says DA flip-flopped in evidence fight, citing Vandy rape case
Legal arguments are heating up in the murder case against a Nashville police officer, with the officer’s defense attorney accusing the city’s top prosecutor of hypocrisy in a legal filing Thursday. Officer Andrew Delke, 25, was charged with first-degree murder after he shot Daniel Hambrick during a foot chase in...
Delke lawyers: DA Glenn Funk ‘declared war’ on Nashville police with Nuremberg comparison
Nashville police officer Andrew Delke’s defense attorneys said Monday that District Attorney Glenn Funk has “declared war on the police department.” Nothing, Funk’s office said, “could be further from the truth.” Delke, 25, who is white, fatally shot Daniel Hambrick, also 25, who was black, during a July 26 foot...
Attorney for officer charged with homicide: DA “has functionally declared war on our police”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The lawyer defending a police officer charged with homicide says the district attorney has “functionally declared war on police,” due to the DA’s comments during a court hearing on Saturday. Decommissioned Metro Nashville police officer Andrew Delke faces criminal homicide charges in the shooting death of...
Driver Rear-Ends UPS Truck in Fatal Construction Zone Crash
Fatal rear-end truck accident a reminder of the need to slow down and exercise caution in construction zones. Earlier this month a 32-year-old Goodlettsville man suffered serious injuries when his car struck the back of a UPS tractor that was stopped due to construction-related traffic on I-24 West near the...
Safety Improvements Implemented at Nashville’s “Most Dangerous Intersection”
Nashville Pedestrian Accidents According to the Tennessee Department of Homeland Security, there were nearly 300 pedestrians involved in accidents in Davidson County last year. Worse yet, 2017 was the deadliest year for pedestrians in Nashville history, with nearly two dozen individuals killed on Music City’s roads. Nashville’s population is growing...
Raybin & Weissman Files Lawsuit Regarding Female Inmate Who Was Impregnated By Guard
Raybin & Weissman recently filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of their client, a female inmate who was repeatedly raped and impregnated by a guard at the Moore County Jail. Said lead attorney Ben Raybin: “Jessica Fowler is just one of many women who have been sexually abused by a...
Head-On Collisions Continue to Plague Nashville
Wrong-way Car Accident on New Year’s Day The New Year was just a few hours old when the Nashville metropolitan area witnessed its first wrong-way crash of 2018. According to WKRN, a black Nissan collided head-on with a silver Chrysler near I-24 West’s Maxey Road exit, just before the Montgomery...
Woman Brings Excessive Force Lawsuit Following Jailhouse Taser Incident
Last month, a Schuyler County, Illinois, resident brought a lawsuit against the Schuyler County Sheriff’s Department in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, alleging that excessive force was used against her and that her Fourth Amendment rights were violated. Specifically, the victim alleged that a male...
85-Year-Old Pedestrian Killed in Tractor-Trailer Truck Accident
Fatal Crossville Pedestrian Truck Accident On November 20th, an elderly man was killed by a semi tractor-trailer truck at an intersection in Crossville, a town of 12,000 people found approximately two hours east of downtown Nashville. According to the Crossville Chronicle, the accident occurred at the corner of Main Street...
MTA Bus Hits Pedestrian in Downtown Nashville Accident
MTA Bus Accidents in Nashville Earlier this year, I wrote about an incident in which an MTA bus hit a 64-year-old woman and dragged her more than 50 yards at the intersection of Charlotte Avenue and 5th Avenue North in downtown Nashville. The Murfreesboro resident life suffered life-threatening injuries but...
Pedestrian Killed in Donelson Hit and Run Accident
Hit and run accidents have become all-too-common in Nashville. On a Sunday night late last month, three co-workers from India who had traveled to the United States to attend an employer-sponsored training program were walking along Elm Hill Pike in Donelson when they were struck by a red Ford pickup...
Tennessee Statutory Rape Laws and Punishments
The Statutory Rape Law in Tennessee We have all heard about the “age of consent.” That is the age at which a person is considered to be able to consent to sexual relations. The offense of statutory rape is essentially when sex would otherwise be considered “consensual” except for the...
Raybin & Weissman Files Lawsuit For Excessive Force in Taser Case
Excessive Force Lawsuit Raybin & Weissman recently filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of their client alleging excessive force. The suit alleges that Cheatham County Sheriff Deputies repeatedly Tased their client while he was restrained in a restraint chair and unable to resist. After he was released from jail, their...
What Should You Pay Your Lawyer? – Don’t Overpay
If you or a family member has been hurt in an accident in Nashville or elsewhere in Tennessee, you’re probably considering filing a lawsuit. The first question you likely need the answer to is: “How do attorneys get paid?” Or, more specifically, “How do Nashville personal injury attorneys get paid?”...
Elderly Woman Hit and Dragged by Negligent MTA Bus Driver
At a bus stop on Charlotte Avenue near the Music City Terminal a routine day turned into a nightmare. A 64-year-old woman stepped off the bus near the intersection of Charlotte Avenue and 5th Avenue. As she began to walk in front of the bus to cross 5th Avenue from...
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring a Nashville Accident Lawyer
After you’ve been in a vehicle accident the unsolicited advice begins to pour in. What you should tell the insurance company, whether you should call a Nashville accident lawyer, which lawyer you should call, whether you should see a doctor, how much your case is worth, whether you should settle....
Frequently Asked Questions After a Car Wreck
In almost every initial meeting with clients, we are asked some of the same questions. We have compiled a list of frequently asked questions and answered them below: 1. Who pays for my medical expenses? When you are involved in an automobile accident, you will inevitably incur medical expenses and...
Checking Child Safety Seats for Proper Installation Saves Lives
Any life lost in a vehicle accident is horrible but the loss of toddler or baby is especially tragic. I urge everyone in Greater Nashville to make sure they use child car restraints properly each and every time they get behind the wheel. As the cold weather season approaches, be...
After You’ve Been in a Car Accident in Nashville
I had a conversation with a potential client in Nashville this morning who said something that I hear all too often. She said, “I thought I could handle this with the adjuster directly, but I realize I cannot.” She then went on to tell me about the difficulty and the...
Fatigued Trucking Accident Causes 8-Vehicle Crash in Nashville
Recently, a FedEx truck driver crashed on I-24 West causing multiple injuries. When I learned about this horrific accident, I immediately thought about the safety of Tennesseans who regularly use our roadways for commuting to work or visiting loved ones. According to reports from News Channel 5 and WKRN, the...
FAQ: Restoration of Firearm Rights in Tennessee
Many people have questions about whether their firearm rights can be restored after a felony conviction. Unfortunately, Tennessee law makes it very difficult to regain firearm rights. A person convicted of a crime in Tennessee must obtain a pardon from the governor and fulfill other criteria. A person convicted in...
6 Tips to Prevent Employee Theft at Your Company
Employee theft is rarely something companies think about until it’s too late. However, taking the appropriate preventative measures to prevent embezzlement is far easier than the significant cleanup work required when victimized by employee theft. How to Prevent Employee Theft What are the steps that you can take to minimize...
Reporting Fraud: 3 Protections for Whistleblowers
The simple answer: expose it. Yet, the reality is that reporting fraud can be scary. You might fear losing your job or suffering harassment at work. Having filed numerous claims on behalf of whistleblowers, I can attest that coming forward is one of the most difficult decisions a person will...
Suspect Fraud at Your Company? You Could be a Whistleblower
As an employee, you would never expect that your employer is participating in fraudulent activities. However, if you work for a company that submits bills to government programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, or Tri-Care, there is a real possibility you may be placed in this position. According to government audits,...
7 Important Steps to Handle Employee Theft
Your trusted bookkeeper of 20 years has been robbing you blind. Not with a pistol but with a pencil. She has been paying herself an extra paycheck every few weeks. He has been diverting funds to fictitious vendors – on paper at least – to cover his tracks. What do you...
What is the Financial Compensation for Whistleblower Cases?
If your employer is submitting false bills to the government, your company is participating in fraudulent activity. This is commonly seen in the healthcare sector when clinics, doctors and hospitals submit bills to Medicare or Medicaid. For example, a medical office might double bill for the same service or charge...
Understanding Tennessee Hit and Run Laws
If you get into a traffic accident, your insurance company isn’t the only one who needs to know. Under Tennessee “hit and run” law, you may be required to take several different steps to notify the government and/or the other driver about the accident. Some of these requirements apply immediately,...
Ben Raybin Discusses Development in Vanderbilt Football Rape Case
Viewers of WSMV-Channel 4 may have seen me interviewed on the evening news last Friday discussing the Vanderbilt Football rape case. The breaking development was that Vandy receiver Chris Boyd pled guilty to attempting to be an “accessory after the fact” in light of evidence that he had helped carry...
Are Your Office E-Mails to Your Spouse Protected by the Marital Privilege?
Can the police subpoena your emails to your spouse? Can your emails be subject to a subpoena? _ Marital Privilege Doctrine _ Are your emails to your spouse protected when written on a work computer? According to one very recent federal court ruling, not necessarily so. United States v Hamilton, -F.3d-,...
Setting off Fireworks in Nashville Could Lead to Criminal Charges
According to multiple local media sources this week, due to dry conditions in the area the Metro Nashville Police Department will have a zero tolerance for those that set off fireworks in Nashville this 4th of July week. Nashville Police have indicated that those caught shooting off fireworks will be...