DA’s office wants juvenile records available to criminal court judges
“If you’ve got a 19-year-old who’s charged with car theft,” Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy (left) said, “don’t you want that judge to know when that kid was 16, 17, he had three car-theft convictions?” Shelby County Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon is at right. (The Daily Memphian file)
A proposal before the state Legislature would allow juvenile court records to be used in criminal court bail decisions. But Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said he is also working on a local agreement to do the same thing.
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Steve Mulroy Shelby County Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon John Gillespie Juvenile Court recordsAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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