Criminal Practice Clinic
Overview
Criminal Practice Clinic represent adults charged with criminal offenses and children charged with criminal offenses and delinquency. They obtain experience in pretrial, trial, and post-conviction matters under the close supervision of clinical faculty. Students represent individuals charged with felonies from indictment through disposition - either trial or plea negotiation and sentencing - and, in some instances, on appeal. In addition, students handle post-conviction relief petitions on behalf of persons in prison. Four credits are awarded in the first semester in which the student is enrolled, which includes a series of introductory classes on the lawyering process and relevant issues of substantive law and procedure.
Clinic News
Clinic Director
Sue Kay has headed the law school's clinical and experiential legal education program since 2001, having joined the clinical faculty in 1980. In addition to teaching in the Criminal Practice Clinic, Dean Kay supervises the Trial Advocacy courses and teaches courses on Criminal Law and Evidence. She is active in many professional and service activities and has served as president of the Clinical Legal Education Association and as president of the board of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.
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