Martelia T. Crawford

ISLN: 908127014
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Practice areas

• Family law
• Divorce
• Child custody
• Criminal defense
• DUI
• Drug crimes
• Juvenile crimes
• Rule 31 family mediator

Admitted

• Tennessee and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1984
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1997

Education

• Nashville School of Law, J.D.

Associations & memberships

• Davidson and Putnam County, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
• Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1986 – 1988)
• Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Board Member, 1998 – 2001)
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators, 2008
• Association for Conflict Resolution 2008

Biographical details

Honor Council, Nashville School of Law. Recipient: Rule 31 Family Mediator, May 2008. 12-Hour Domestic Violence Training Requirement for Mediators, July 2008.

Cases

• State v. William Walter, III and Roger Dale Lewis – post conviction relief – 1987 WL 7707 (Tenn. Crim. App. 3-12-87)
• State v. John Randall Issacs – post conviction relief-1992 WL 206230 (Tenn. Crim. App. 8-27-95)
• Larry Cavens v. State – first degree murder – post conviction relief – 1995 WL 83997 (Tenn. Crim. App. 3-2-95)
• State v. Richard Graybeal – suppression of illegal search-1995 WL 382597 (Tenn. Crim. App. 6-28-95)
• State v. Landon Gaw – suppression of illegal search – 1995 WL 626616 (Tenn. Crim.App. 10-26-95)
• State v. Scott Albertson – drug charges – modification of sentence – 1997 WL 438177 (Tenn. Crim. app. 7-31-97)
• State v. Steve Caldwell – first degree murder – 1997 WL 602915 (Tenn. Crim. App. 9-30-97)
• State v. Michael Bush – first degree murder – death penalty – 942 S.W.2d 489 (Tenn. 1997), cert. denied 118 S.Ct. 376 (S.Ct. 11-2-97)