The Tennessee Criminal Justice Reform Library is a resource tool that will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Check back often to see the latest additions!

Study Reports

• Resources of the Prosecution and Indigent Defense Functions in Tennessee
• State by State Memorandum on Indigent Defense & Capital Case Representation
• “Tennessee’s Death Penalty: Cost and Consequences” (PDF)
• Department of Justice Compendium of Standards for Indigent Defense Systems
• Report of the Tennessee Bar Association Commission on Jury Reform, Tennessee Bar Association Commission on Jury Reform, (May 1999)
• Report to the Board of Governors and the House of Delegates of the Study Committee on Effective Assistance of Counsel in Capital Cases, Tennessee Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, (December 31, 2004)
• Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Report, American Bar Association, (March 2007)

Law Reviews, Journal Articles and Published Speeches

• Foley, Daniel J., Death by Election?  A UT professor says voters have changed the way the Supreme Court Justices vote in capital cases since Justice Penny White was voted off the Court, Tennessee Bar Journal, December 2001.  (See, also, Foley, Daniel J., Supreme Court: A Statistical Analysis of an Ideological Shift After the 1990 election, 64 Tenn. L. Rev. 155-93 (1996))
• Davis, Lee and Hoss, Bryan, Tennessee Death Penalty: An Overview of the Procedural Safegaurds, 31 U. Mem. L. Rev. 779 (2001)