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Attorney for victims' families finds no humor in TBI file fiasco

What a joke. That is the reaction from the attorney for the families of two torture-slaying victims to news a file these survivors are fighting the state to see has been sitting — unsealed — in a...

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Editorial: Judge should unseal TBI file on Baumgartner

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s report of the probe that led to the downfall of former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner is part of the disgraced jurist’s federal case file...

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Battle to make public TBI file on ex-judge hits potential roadblock

Another roadblock looms in the path to make public the entire Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report on its probe of disgraced former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner.

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Local Voices: Janet Westbrook: Judge turned out to be a fraud

I watch many true crime shows. My husband used to say it was because as the victim of an injustice myself, I liked to see malefactors get their just desserts. True, but it is also that I keep trying to...

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Judge denies access to TBI file on Richard Baumgartner

KNOXVILLE — The still-secret portion of ex-Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner’s Tennessee Bureau of Investigation file isn’t relevant to public understanding of his case or any other...

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Judge: No need to unseal file on former judge Baumgartner

The public doesn’t need to know what else lies hidden in the still-secret portion of ex-Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner’s Tennessee Bureau of Investigation file, a judge has ruled.

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KNS says judge's ruling on TBI file too broad

KNOXVILLE — A ruling rejecting a bid to unseal Tennessee Bureau of Investigation records on a disgraced former Knox County judge runs afoul of a state Supreme Court decision, a petition filed today...

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Letter: Baumgartner file needs airing out

The only obvious reason not to unseal the file would be to protect individuals from embarrassment or culpability.

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Local Voices: T. Wayne Waters — Legal professionals bring shame on their field

What’s the difference between a catfish and a lawyer? One’s a slimy, scum-sucking, bottom-dwelling scavenger; the other is a fish.

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Former Judge Baumgartner out of prison, back in Knox County

Former Judge Richard Baumgartner is out of federal prison and home in Knox County, serving a two-week in-home confinement period as he finishes his federal sentence.

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Georgiana Vines: Prosecutor Leland Price kicking off campaign for judge

He is the first high-profile Democrat to announce for the May 6 primary

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Website to provide information on judicial candidates

The Knoxville Bar Association will launch by January an online resource to help voters learn more about local judicial candidates.

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Randy McNally to seek new term, says 'things left undone'

NASHVILLE — Oak Ridge Republican Randy McNally, first elected to the state Senate in 1986, says he has decided to seek reelection to another four-year term believing “there are a number of things sort...

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Quest for TBI file on ex-judge Richard Baumgartner mired in federal court

More than three years since the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation launched a probe of a prominent Knox County judge, the News Sentinel’s quest for the investigative file remains in limbo.

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Parents of Channon Christian seek changes in laws

Among those law changes is a move to keep defense attorneys from impugning the character of victims sans a hearing.

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Lawyer Bruce Poston facing pills charges in alleged tryst

A Knoxville defense attorney whose courtroom victories earned him the nickname "Cut 'Em Loose, Bruce" was arrested Tuesday on charges he supplied prescription painkillers to a paramour.

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Child rapist pleads guilty on eve of trial

KNOXVILLE — A convicted child rapist who won a retrial pleaded guilty Tuesday.

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Randy McNally: Judiciary must be held accountable

During my 34 years in the Tennessee General Assembly, nothing has affected me more than seeing families who have lost loved ones due to heinous crimes, only to be victimized again by our court system....

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Georgiana Vines: A big election year for Knox County judicial system

It’s a big election year for Knox County’s judicial system, which will have a very different face in September from 2006, when voters chose 18 judicial figures, mostly judges, to prosecute, defend and...

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