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Joshua Hedrick, Knoxville Criminal Defense Attorney

Joshua D. Hedrick

Joshua Hedrick has practiced criminal defense law in Tennessee since 2006. He possesses extensive trial experience, with particular focus  on homicide cases. His work obtaining a new trial for and exoneration of Raynella Dossett Leath was featured on CBS’s 48 Hours (July 14, 2018, Season 30, Episode 54). He is dedicated to the cause of indigent defense.

He has successfully argued cases before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court and defended citizens against federal prosecutions in the Eastern District of Tennessee and in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.  He is a member of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and the Knoxville Bar Association. In 2021, he was inducted into Fellowship of the Knoxville Bar Foundation, made his first appearance in Tennessee Super Lawyers annual peer review, and won the Massey-McGee Trial Advocacy Award from the Tennessee Associaton of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  He has been a member of the Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court since 2009.

Joshua earned his law degree from the Universty of Memphis College of Law in 2006, and holds an undergraduate in political science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.  He is a Knoxville native and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Heska Amuna Synagogue.

HONORS
CREDENTIALS

EDUCATION:

University of Memphis
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

Memphis, TN

  • Doctorate of Jurisprudence, 1993
  • Honors: Cum Laude

BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS:

  • Tennessee Supreme Court, since 2006
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, since 2007
  • United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, since 2012
  • United States Supreme Court, since 2021

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

  • Tennessee Bar Association, since 2010
  • Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, since 2006
  • Knoxville Bar Association, since 2006
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, since 2006

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION:

  • Tennessee Super Lawyers, since 2021
  • Hamilton-Burnett American Inn of Court, since 2009
  • Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Massey-McGee Trial Advocacy Award, 2021
  • Knoxville Bar Foundation Fellow, since 2021

PRESENTATIONS::

  • The Government is Sliding into your DMs: The Stored Communications Act, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2022
  • Annual Criminal Caselaw Update, Knoxville Bar Association, 2022
  • Annual Criminal Caselaw Update, Knoxville Bar Association, 2021
  • Preparing Your Client’s Testimony, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2020
  • Annual Criminal Caselaw Update, Knoxville Bar Association, 2020
  • Conquering the State Expert, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2019
  • Anatomy of an Acquittal, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2017

NOTEWORTHY CASES:

  • State of Tennessee v. Brian Erickson, Knox County Criminal Court No. 88807 - Defendant indicted for first degree murder, jury finding: guilty of reckless homicide
  • State of Tennessee v. Victor Moore, Knox County Criminal Court No. 94128 - Defendant indicted for second degree murder, jury finding: guilty of criminally negligent homicide
  • State of Tennessee v. Kenneth Allen Spencer, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals No. E2009-01708-CCA-R3-CD - Appellant’s convictions for especially aggravated kidnapping, especially aggravated robbery, and aggravated burglary reversed, charges dismissed.
  • State of Tennessee v. David Nagele, Tennessee Supreme Court, 353 S.W.3d 112 (Tenn. 2011) - Appellant successfully challenged the application of community supervision for life where client was not informed of the punishment at his plea.
  • State of Tennessee v. Raynella Leath, Knox County Criminal Court No. 85787 - Defendant’s first degree murder conviction and life sentence on petition for post-conviction relief, dismissed on retrial for insufficient evidence. Exoneration featured on CBS’s 48 Hours, July 14, 2018, Season 30, Episode 54.
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