Novel Legal Arguments Made in Covenant Shooter’s Documents Case

Arguments were finally held this week a year after the initial lawsuits seeking the documents were filed.

Mourners observe the makeshift memorial at The Covenant School in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville on March 31, 2023, four days after six were killed at the school in a shooting. Chase Smith/The Epoch Times

In the first arguments on whether or not the Covenant School shooter’s so-called “manifesto” and other writings and journals will be released, those seeking to keep the documents from seeing the light of day have made what the judge overseeing the public records case said are “novel” legal arguments. 

A two day show-cause hearing wrapped up Wednesday afternoon and were the first such arguments on the merits of whether or not the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) should release the shooter’s writings, as the case has been tied up in appeals and other delays for over a year now.