David Raybin – Publications, Articles & Briefs

This is a partial list of David Raybin‘s publications, articles and briefs. To learn more about David Raybin, please click here.

• Lawsuit claims life sentences miscalculated
• Kentucky Clerk Not Issuing Marriage Licenses Jailed
• Sumner County detective resigns amid investigation
• A lawsuit with large potential ramifications challenges Tennessee’s handling of life sentences with chance of parole
• 4 Nashville criminal cases overturned in 35 days
• Lindsey Lowe, who killed newborn twins, seeks new trial
• Defense lawyers say sentencing task force one-sided
• Lawyers: Beck case falls in gray area of DUI law
• Lindsey Lowe Convicted of Killing Twin Babies Seeks New Trial
• Mother Convicted of Smothering Twins Seeks New Trial
• Lindsey Lowe Seeks A New Trial
• Blackwell v Haslam, Brief (Pardon and Second Amendment)
• Improving Attorney-Client Communications: Fifty Tips
• Search and Seizure; “Knock and Talk” Doctrine (brief)
• Criminally Negligent Homicide (Brief)
• Expungement of Arrest Records Tennessee Bar Journal (February, 2008)
• State v. Gomez: Tennessee Sentencing Law Violates Sixth Amendment, Tenn. Bar Journal(December, 2007)
• Appellate Retroactivity Rules: The Pipeline Doctrine
• Consecutive Sentences Violate the Sixth Amendment (Brief)
• Civil Rights Complaint (False Arrest)
• Appellate Advocacy
• Who’s there? The parameters of police ‘knock and talk’ tactics, 43 Tennessee Bar Association Journal 3 (March, 2007)
• Motion to Suppress Search of Dwelling
• Sentencing Memorandum ( Possession of Machine Gun)
• Change of Venue (Motion)
• Child Sex Offenses (Brief)
• Corporate Crime (Speech)
• Criminal Mental Health Issues (Speech)
• Deportation because of Criminal Conviction (Speech)
• Double Jeopardy (Brief)

• Driving under the Influence (Brief)
• Evading Arrest (Brief)
• Insanity Defense (Brief)
• Mental State Jury Instructions (Brief)
• Mistaken Identity (Brief)
• Setting Aside Guilty Plea (Brief)
• The Anticipated Resolution of the Blakely Split of Authority in the States, 18 Federal Sentencing Reporter, October, 2005
• Weapon Offense (Federal Sentencing Memo)
• The Blakely Fix, 41 Tennessee Bar Association Journal 14 (July 2005)
• What is the Impact of Blakely v. Washington on Sentencing in Tennessee? Tenn. Bar Journal , August, 2004
• Thirteen Tips For Improving Client Relations, Tenn. Bar Journal, Nov. 2002
• Stick to Your Guns: Restoration of Firearm Rights, Tenn. Bar Journal, March 2003
• Mrs. Burns’ Lesser Included Offense Pyramid, Tenn. Bar Association, Nov. 1999
• Instructing the Jury in Murder Cases, Tenn. Bar Journal, July, 2002
• Obtaining Medical Records For Mental Health Evaluations, Tenn. Bar Journal, July, 2001
• Advocacy In DUI Cases
• Battered Woman Defense
• Ethics in Criminal Cases
• State v. Flake [Insanity Law] (Defendant’s Brief) (PDF)
• Sentencing Memorandum (Manslaughter Case)
• Tennessee Sentencing Practices 1790-1999
• State v. Kimbrell [Child Sex Abuse Allegations] (Defendant’s Brief)
• Three Volume Set, Tennessee Criminal Practice and Procedure, West Publishing Company, 1984 – present (this work has been cited as authority in over one hundred appellate opinions)
• The Tennessee Sentencing Reform Act of 1982, 18 Tenn. Bar J. 36 (Aug. 1982)
• The Class X Felony Law of 1979, 14 Tenn. Bar J. 25 (Aug. 1979)
• The Proposed Criminal Code, 41 Tenn. L. Rev. 131 (1973)
• Note, The Abolition of Anonymity, 40 Tenn. L. Rev. 301 (1973)