Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy chose the National Civil Rights Museum as a backdrop to announce that applications are now being accepted for a new Justice Review Unit (JRU).
Mulroy first promoted a post-conviction review mechanism in late October...
Prominent criminal defense attorney William Massey told reporters in a brief press conference that his client, Hernandez Govan, “had nothing to do with the murder of Memphis rapper, Young Dolph.
Following the Nov. 17 arraignment of Govan by Criminal Court...
Hernandez Govan, the 43-year-old that prosecutors charge solicited the killers of Young Dolph, is scheduled to appear before Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee on Thursday (Nov. 17), the first anniversary of the Memphis rapper’s death.
Govan is set to appear...
One of the accused killers of Memphis rapper Young Dolph is OK with spending twenty-three and a half hours locked in a cell at the Shelby County Penal Farm. In fact, that’s the request he has made through an...
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A man testified Tuesday that he saw an acquaintance shoot his friend and business partner, unprovoked, outside his Tennessee home in a killing that authorities said sparked a daylong crime rampage that paralyzed Memphis and led to...
by Adrian Sainz --
Already serving life in prison after his first-degree murder conviction in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, Billy Ray Turner was sentenced Friday on lesser charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in the 12-year-old...
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich says it’s Pamela Moses’ own fault that she is serving a six-year sentence for voter fraud.
“I gave her a chance to plead to a misdemeanor with no prison time,” Weirich said. “She...
The attorney for Memphis activist Pamela Moses, who recently was sentenced to six years and a day in prison for attempting to vote while on probation, said he’s just getting warmed up to fight on her behalf.
“I don’t care...
The movement to free Pervis Payne celebrated a huge legal victory on Monday (Jan. 31), as Shelby County Judge Paula Skahan ruled that Payne’s two life sentences would run concurrently instead of consecutively.
The ruling means that Payne would be...
The alleged killers of renowned Memphis rapper Young Dolph made their second court appearance in Shelby County Criminal Court before Judge Lee V. Coffee on Friday morning.
Neither Cornelius Smith nor Justin Johnson had secured legal representation and Coffee set...