Moore County Criminal Docket Searches
Moore County publishes no official criminal docket search form and no daily criminal calendar. Begin instead with the court type and the best identifier you have. The Moore Circuit Court Clerk page is the local starting point for Circuit criminal files. Linda Wolaver serves as Circuit Court Clerk. The public number is 931-759-7208, and mail goes to PO Box 8185, Lynchburg, TN 37352.
Make a focused request. A case number works best. Staff can also work from a full caption, an approximate filing year, a charge category, and the court level. Say what product you need. A docket printout, a named order, a judgment, and a certified copy are not interchangeable.
- Decide whether the matter began in General Sessions or reached Circuit Court.
- Call the Circuit Court Clerk for a Circuit felony file or uncertain routing.
- For a misdemeanor or preliminary hearing, ask for the General Sessions criminal records route; 931-455-5407 is the published court contact.
- Inspect the public record at 196 Main Street, Lynchburg, or send a specific request under current custodian rules.
- Ask whether a public terminal, printed docket, or TennesseeCaseFinder access is available, since none was confirmed online.
Moore Criminal Courts by Charge
Moore County has no separately listed county Criminal Court. The AOC courthouse directory labels the location "Circuit, Criminal & Chancery Courts," but the clerk structure points to a Circuit Court Clerk rather than a separate Criminal Court Clerk. Felony trials therefore land on the Moore Circuit Court criminal docket. Lower criminal work starts in General Sessions.
| Matter | Docket | First contact |
|---|---|---|
| Felony indictment, plea, trial, sentence | Moore Circuit Court | Circuit Court Clerk |
| Initial appearance or preliminary hearing | General Sessions | Sessions court route |
| Misdemeanor within Sessions authority | General Sessions | Sessions court route |
| Lynchburg ordinance matter | Metropolitan General Sessions | Sessions court route |
| Criminal appeal | Court of Criminal Appeals | Public Case History |
The Moore General Sessions page posts no search form. Under the Metropolitan charter, the former Lynchburg Municipal Court is consolidated into General Sessions. Searching for a separate city criminal clerk will only lead you away from the file.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
A Moore County criminal docket is a chronology, not always a complete electronic file. It can identify the case, court, judge, counsel, charge, and each recorded event. A short entry may point to a motion or order. It may not show the document itself. Money details may live in a separate clerk accounting record. Moore displays no published list. No such list says which balance fields appear on a local screen.
| Case identity | Case number, court, caption, parties, judge, and counsel. |
|---|---|
| Charging events | Complaint, warrant, indictment, or other charging instrument. |
| Release events | Initial appearance and public bond or release details, if open. |
| Settings | Arraignment, motion hearing, status event, plea, or trial date. |
| Outcome | Plea, verdict, dismissal, judgment, sentence, and appeal. |
Read each entry with its date and context. "Reset" or "continued" signals a later setting, not a dismissal. "Disposed" marks a result but not its terms. Moore County publishes no local code list, so clerk confirmation or the filed order beats guessing.
Moore Clerk Duties and Routing
Clerks receive and index filings, maintain the docket, preserve orders, and issue copies. The official Tennessee trial-clerks manual sets out those functions and explains Moore County's split clerk structure.
The manual routes criminal docket requests to the Circuit Court Clerk or the Sessions structure, not to the administrative County Clerk. The County Clerk handles vehicle titles, registration, licenses, marriage, and business services. That portal is not a criminal database.
Moore Circuit Court Clerk
Linda Wolaver
PO Box 8185
Lynchburg, TN 37352
931-759-7208
Ask for Circuit criminal access or the right Sessions clerk route.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
Not every criminal case passes through every stage. Think of the Moore County path as a routing map. It runs from complaint, citation, or warrant; to initial appearance and bond; to a preliminary hearing when required; then indictment or transfer to Circuit, arraignment, motions, plea or trial, judgment and sentence, and finally post-judgment work or appeal. A direct indictment can skip part of that sequence.
Typical flow: Filing → Initial Appearance → Preliminary Hearing or Indictment → Arraignment → Pretrial → Plea or Trial → Disposition → Sentencing.
Keep the Moore trial number once an appeal begins. The appellate result may list the trial court, judge, and trial number, but the Moore County docket and trial documents stay with the trial clerk. Confirm the newest entry rather than trusting an old notice.
Note: A setting is one scheduled event. Do not treat it as the final trial date without clerk confirmation.
Moore Criminal Terms in Plain Language
Short docket terms can hide key differences. Moore County publishes no local legend, so treat these as reading aids rather than official codes. The entry and the filed order control. If a term could change your next step, ask the clerk to confirm the status and date.
- Arraignment
- A stage where charges are addressed and a plea may be entered.
- Preliminary hearing
- A Sessions stage that tests whether a felony matter should proceed, when applicable.
- Capias
- A court order tied to taking a person into custody; context matters.
- Continuance or reset
- A change from one setting to a later one, not the end of the case.
- Disposition
- The recorded result, such as a plea, verdict, or dismissal.
"FTA" usually means failure to appear. An entry saying "order filed" does not reveal the order's contents, so request the document itself when its terms matter.
Moore County Criminal Docket Courts
General Sessions handles initial and limited criminal work. Circuit Court holds Moore County felony proceedings and appeals from Sessions. The 17th Judicial District spans Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, and Moore Counties. So district judges and local rules can shape a setting even though the file stays a Moore record.
For an appealed case, the Court of Criminal Appeals is the intermediate appellate court. The Tennessee Public Case History search offers Case Number, Case Style, Party Name, and Business/Organization modes for appellate history. It has no Moore trial-county dropdown and does not serve as a statewide trial search.
If you find an appeal but need the Circuit docket, take the listed trial number. Then contact the Moore clerk. The Moore County docket search page further separates trial and appellate routes.
Moore Criminal E-Filing Is Different
E-filing and public access are two different things in Moore County. Attorneys and other authorized filers can submit and serve papers electronically. That does not mean a free Moore criminal docket login exists for everyone else. Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 49.2 governs criminal e-filing. But local adoption and the court's own directions decide whether it actually operates here. An annual report once listed Moore Circuit as "have Applied." That says nothing about implementation or public viewing.
The Tennessee trial e-filing page is where the state explains the system. It is a landing point, not a Moore criminal docket search. The court posts no vendor page, form, export option, or price screen for public use.
The same local-adoption principle appears on the civil side. Rule 5B is the source for this local adoption limit.
The upshot is narrow but important: filing technology exists apart from public docket access in Moore County.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 34 sets the baseline for public access to court records. The baseline has limits. Juvenile material, protected identifying data, victim information, medical details, sealed records, and anything another rule or order governs can be withheld. So a Moore County docket entry may show a generic event. The underlying document may stay restricted.
Access point: A missing online entry does not prove that no case exists. Moore has no confirmed public trial portal, while a sealed matter raises a separate issue. Ask whether public metadata, a redacted record, or a court order is required.
The Tennessee Public Records Act can shape how you ask, but it never overrides court rules. Name the docket, the date range, the order, or the judgment you want. The Comptroller TPRA guidance explains inspection, copies, timing, citizenship, fees, and written denials.
Moore Criminal Docket Age Snapshot
An AOC report dated June 30, 2024 offers context, not a search tool. It breaks down Moore pending criminal records by age. Just 0.99 percent were filed five or more years earlier, while 99.01 percent were filed less than five years earlier. The table gives percentages only, with no raw case total.
Resist the urge to reverse-engineer those figures into a count. They cannot tell you whether one case is open, closed, sealed, or set for hearing. Ask the clerk for the current Moore County criminal docket instead.