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“You miss graduation, you miss birthday parties. You miss the little scrapes and the falls,” Artis Whitehead said of the things he missed about being a dad during the 21 years he spent in prison. “You miss being able to actually guide them.”
The Tennessee General Assembly passed a law in 2023 taking the power away from local DAs in collateral review of death penalty convictions and instead putting the authority in the hands of the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office.
The DA’s office will now receive $991,178 for the remainder of the fiscal year 2024, which comes out of the general fund balance. Each following fiscal year, the DA’s office will receive $2.98 million.
Despite a rise in violent crime, the overall crime rate fell 6.4% in the city and 7.2% in the county compared to the previous year, according to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission.
The trial for Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith initially was scheduled for March 11 in Shelby County Criminal Court Division 10 Judge Jennifer Mitchell’s courtroom.
“You took my best friend, my soulmate, the one person that understood me,” the victim’s husband told the defendant. “I will never forgive you.”
In the new footage, other MPD officers are heard describing those in the SCORPION unit as “adrenaline junkies” who are too “hands-on.” One officer is also heard saying, “It’ll be justified.”
John Covington was elected to the role of Memphis Police Association vice president in November and started Jan. 1.
As of Jan. 1, Sgt. Matthew Cunningham, 51, is president of Memphis Police Association, moving up from the vice president position.
Four people, two suspects and two civilians, were noncritically injured Friday, Jan. 26, after officers shot at alleged car thieves before the suspects fled and crashed into a civilian’s car.
“To say that that first year was a challenging one would be an understatement,” Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said.
The causes of the deaths in Shelby County were not provided by the Tennessee Department of Health, which referred questions to local law enforcement authorities.
Some of the 120 prosecutors working in the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office make as much as $70,000 more than their colleagues who work next to them.
Memphis saw a 50% decrease in crime between Sunday, Jan. 14, and Tuesday, Jan. 16, from the same point in the week. Criminal incidents were down 62% from the same three-day period in 2023.
From clearing roads to holding court, snow days come with some serious considerations and lots of detail for local government services.
The Hop-In convenience store at South Highland Street and Poplar Avenue was engulfed in flames Monday, Jan. 15.
The guide was written as part of a review from the U.S. DOJ Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, which was requested by the City of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department.
There was a time when violence against suspects was talked about freely within the force, according to former and current MPD officers. Relatively recent evidence suggests that kind of culture may have continued within the department. What’s going on with MPD’s traffic stops? Depends on whom you ask.Related story:
Whether Memphis City Council’s ban on pretextual traffic stops is being followed, and what will happen in the future, remains unclear.
Shelby County Criminal Court Division 3 Judge James Jones Jr. made the ruling in Joel Bowman’s case Monday, Jan. 8, after hearing from witnesses, including the victim of the burglary and Bowman’s former basketball coach.
Memphis ended the year 2023 with 397 homicides, breaking the city’s previous homicide record by more than 50 additional killings.
Shelby County Criminal Court Division 7 Judge Lee Coffee made the decision during a motion hearing Wednesday, Jan. 3, after Abston’s attorney filed a change-of-venue motion, specifically requesting a jury from Davidson County.
“It’s really gonna change the way we’re able to do our job,” said Lt. Jason Valentine, who leads the Sheriff’s Office’s Homeland Security department.
“This is 21st-century policing at its finest,” said MPD’s deputy chief of information technology. “We may not have an officer on every street corner in the city, but we can have a camera.”
At about 7:30 a.m., deputies attempted to stop a suspect wanted by the Germantown Police Department in connection with an attempted murder, according to a statement issued by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.