Knox County Chancellor Clarence “Eddie” Pridemore.Knox County’s newest chancellor has flunked the first test of his legal acumen.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in an opinion this week that Knox County Chancellor Clarence “Eddie” Pridemore botched from start to finish the first case brought up for appellate review since his election last year. The court accused Pridemore of legal plagiarism, rapped him for judicial laziness and called his knowledge of the law suspect.
An appellate test of Pridemore has long been anticipated in the legal community, which publicly questioned whether his August 2014 upset victory over longtime Chancellor Daryl Fansler called for the setting of minimum standards for judicial candidates.
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