Complex judicial races and issues bloom ahead of 2022 elections
Memphis Watch had a mobile billboard circling 201 Poplar on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, highlighting the shortcomings it sees with Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
A veteran Public Defender is seeking to become the first Indian-American to serve as a judge in Shelby County. But Sanjeev Memula is considering which of the nine criminal divisions of General Sessions Court he will seek.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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