There are 34 article(s) tagged Shelby County District Attorney’s Office:

• June 2019

  • No charges to be filed against MPD officer in 2018 fatal shooting

    Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said her office will not file charges against a Memphis police officer in the 2018 officer-involved fatal shooting of a man on Summer Avenue.

    By Yolanda Jones June 11, 2019

  • Family of executed man seeks to have DNA in case tested

    The daughter of Sedley Alley, the man convicted in the 1985 brutal murder and rape of Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Marie Collins in Millington, is seeking to have the DNA evidence in the case tested, some 13 years after her father was executed for the slaying. 

    By Yolanda Jones June 03, 2019

• December 2018

  • The changing role of the district attorney

    I recently heard a retired judge tell a gathering that he started his legal career as a prosecutor.

    By Amy Weirich December 04, 2018

  • January court date set for men charged in Wolfchase Galleria ‘hoodie arrests’

    The two men charged in the Nov. 3 “hoodie arrests” at Wolfchase Galleria Mall will have their cases heard in January.

    By Yolanda Jones December 04, 2018

  • ‘Focused deterrence’ crime-fighting strategy offers hope to ex-offenders

    On a recent weeknight when most people were just getting home from work, nine men sat side-by-side staring into the faces of law enforcement and community leaders.

    By Yolanda Jones December 03, 2018

• November 2018

  • Memphis and Shelby County homicide victims remembered with ceremony

    Jaylon Cohen was out with friends enjoying Fourth of July fireworks when he was shot in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Bartlett.

    By Yolanda Jones November 27, 2018

• October 2018

  • Shelby County DA’s office won’t prosecute many revoked driver’s license cases

    For the last seven weeks, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office has quietly dismissed more than 3,000 cases where people were charged with driving on suspended, revoked or canceled driver’s licenses.

    By Yolanda Jones October 20, 2018

  • V Live club called public nuisance to reopen

    A Hickory Hill club closed down as a public nuisance following two homicides is reopening under court supervision and will no longer be a strip club.

    By Yolanda Jones October 16, 2018

• September 2018

  • ‘Every Day in School’ program works with schools, parents to reduce truancy

    Siblings were truant at a Shelby County school last year because they had to share a uniform.

    By Yolanda Jones September 18, 2018