City appealing ruling in class-action rape kit backlog suit
Attorneys for the City of Memphis are appealing the class-action status of a lawsuit against the city over its lack of testing of more than 12,000 rape kits.
Topic: rape kits
RSSThere are 14 article(s) tagged rape kits:
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August 2023
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March 2023
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Judge dismisses Alicia Franklin lawsuit against City of Memphis
Franklin claims if police had properly investigated her September 2021 rape and had subsequently arrested Cleotha Henderson, the abduction and death of Eliza Fletcher in September 2022 could have been avoided.
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Judge rules rape-kit backlog case can become class-action
The ruling will allow the plaintiffs to sue the city with a class-action status.
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December 2022
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Sanford: Legal argument aside, the link between an unsolved rape and Eliza Fletcher’s murder is clear
Barring some technicality in the law, there is nothing complicated about whether there is a link between Alicia Franklin’s rape and Eliza Fletcher’s murder.
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Judge should dismiss rape victim’s suit, city attorney says
Attorneys for the City of Memphis want a judge to dismiss rape victim Alicia Franklin’s lawsuit, contending MPD owed Alicia Franklin no duty to investigate to the extent she wanted.
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Victims accuse city officials of ‘pattern of false statements’ in rape kit lawsuit
In a legal twist in Memphis’ rape kit lawsuit, victims cite new evidence about DNA testing that could have been used to solve sexual assaults by strangers.
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November 2022
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A tale of two cities: How Nashville built a crime lab Memphis couldn’t
Following the murder of Eliza Fletcher, questions loom about MPD’s systems in investigating violent crime.
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October 2022
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Ex-detective’s testimony hangs in balance in rape kit lawsuit
As rape survivors pursue a lawsuit accusing the Memphis Police Department of negligence, the city is asking a judge to exclude testimony of a former sex crimes detective who claims MPD failed to properly investigate numbers of cases.
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Amended lawsuit says Henderson avoided rape charge for months despite evidence from girlfriend
An amended lawsuit contends Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer avoided arrest for rape in 2021 despite implicating details that a second witness gave Memphis police days after the attack.
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September 2022
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Strickland says too early to discuss possible police missteps in violent crime chain
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says it’s too early to tell if there were police missteps in how they handled the violent crimes of the last three weeks because investigations are still underway.
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Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer investigated in 2021 for rape
In September 2021, a woman told police Cleotha Abston abducted and raped her at gunpoint, yet Abston remained free until he was arrested earlier this week for Eliza Fletcher’s murder.
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Cleotha Henderson, aka Abston, arraigned for charges in 2021 rape case
The man accused in the death of Eliza Fletcher has also been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape and illegal possession of a firearm after results from a rape kit submitted in 2021 linked him to that crime.
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April 2022
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Deposition renews controversy in hotly contested rape kit lawsuit against city
Attorneys for rape victims suing the City of Memphis presented new allegations contending that kits were indeed destroyed.
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March 2022
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Exoneration efforts stalled by evidence destruction
Some states require police to keep DNA evidence until the person convicted dies. But in Tennessee, it can be destroyed after a conviction is rendered, leaving no way for many cases to be revisited.
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