Opinion: Arguments about justice system ‘shouldn’t be a competition’
Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy attends a joint press conference with Memphis Police Department Chief C.J. Davis and Mayor Paul Young May 2. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Kevin Rardin
Kevin Rardin spent over 40 years as a lawyer in the Shelby County criminal court system, including as a prosecutor under the last four district attorneys, as an assistant public defender, and as a Juvenile Court magistrate. He is an Association of Prosecuting Attorneys Fellow. He served 21 years in the US Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
A longtime former prosecutor argues improvements in bail setting “has more to do with good advocacy on the part of local prosecutors, good decisions by local judges and less to do with changes in the law.”
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