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PEARISBURG — A Giles County man who three years ago led a home invasion that turned fatal for one of the would-be robbers asked last week for leniency for his younger co-defendants, requesting that a judge “place the burden on me.” David Joseph Cecil, 51, then was sentenced to serve 43 years in prison, with decades more time behind bars suspended. Cecil, who said he was in poor health and whose attorney said any lengthy prison term could effectively become a life sentence, drew 3...

PULASKI — Stabbing a friend to death in a fight over a girlfriend’s affections will send Brent Ethan Harrell to prison for 20 years, a judge ruled Monday. Harrell, who is 21 now, was 19 when he and Chandler Spencer Dowell, also 19, met in an early-morning brawl brought on by a Facebook post and a storm of trash-talking text messages. In September, Harrell was convicted of second-degree murder. At Monday’s sentencing hearing in Pulaski County Circuit Court, tearful witnesses recal...

Abelow named president of Nashville Bar Association Friday, December 25, 2020, Vol. 44, No. 52 Mike Abelow, member at Sherrard Roe Voigt and Harbison, has been named 2021 president of the Nashville Bar Association. Abelow litigates complex business disputes, with a focus on business disputes that involve either party threatening to or filing for bankruptcy. He was a litigator with the Federal Trade Commission before moving to Nashville in 2007. Before bec...