IN HIS QUEST FOR JUSTICE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 11, 2019) — On Monday morning, Shelby County, TN resident Earley Story, who maintains he was falsely charged in 1997 for allegedly selling marijuana to an undercover agent, had a hearing in Division VIII of the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center in Memphis with the purpose […]
HAVE JAILERS MADE HIM A “TARGET?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 25, 2019) — A letter received last week from Shelby County, TN inmate Benjamin Miles dated October 9, 2019 expresses gratitude for The Post & Email’s response to an earlier letter in which Miles described a severe beating by correction officers and hospitalization of which […]
“I AM NOT A LAWYER” by Earley Story, ©2019 (Oct. 11, 2019) —[Editor’s Note: The following was sent as an email to the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA), an individual at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and this writer containing the three attachments referenced in the email. The Post & Email has reported on Story’s […]
ALLEGES HEAD INJURIES, EYE-SOCKET FRACTURE, LACERATIONS, IMPAIRED VISION by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 4, 2019) — On Friday The Post & Email received a letter from Shelby County, TN jail inmate Benjamin Miles, #17144506, reporting a brutal assault on the part of an Officer Burns and several other correction officers late last month resulting in Miles’s […]
WITNESS IN TONY CARRUTHERS CASE RECANTED TESTIMONY by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 26, 2019) — On Tuesday, The Tennessean reported that Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III filed motions with the state Supreme Court that the death sentences of nine inmates be carried through to execution. Slatery had announced the motions on the official website […]
“IT’S NOTHING BUT A COMEDY SHOW” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 22, 2019) — Acting as his own attorney, former Shelby County sergeant Earley Story attended a hearing Friday in his continued quest to clear his name of a 20-year-old felony conviction which destroyed his career and earning potential, the effects of which he said he […]
RESULTING IN DENIAL OF “DUE PROCESS OF LAW” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 28, 2019) — A lawsuit filed in federal court last fall by six inmates at the Shelby County jail in Memphis, TN claims that citizens of the county are subjected to a “routine ‘rubber stamp’ policy and procedure” after they are arrested and […]
“HE KNOWS ME VERY WELL” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2019) — On Friday, former Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) deputy Earley Story attended a hearing at the Shelby County Criminal Court in a proceeding stemming from his request to show that exculpatory evidence was withheld from his defense counsel in 1999, the year he […]
“I WANT THEM TO DO THE RIGHT THING” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 21, 2019) — On Wednesday evening, National Police Defense Foundation (NPDF) Founder and Executive Director Joseph Occhipinti informed this writer that he received a response from an aide to Rep. Steve Cohen to his request for an FBI investigation into the arrest and […]
WHY WAS EARLEY STORY CHARGED WITH A CRIME? by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 10, 2019) — The National Police Defense Foundation (NPDF) on Sunday issued a press release requesting the launch of an FBI investigation into the 1999 conviction of former Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Sgt. Earley Story on a drug charge. Founded in […]
FORMER JAILER HAS LIVED WITH FALSE FELONY CONVICTION FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 8, 2019) — On Monday morning, former Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office sergeant Earley Story attended a hearing at the Shelby County Justice Center, a continuation of a proceeding he requested last fall in an attempt to overturn a […]
FALSELY-ACCUSED FORMER JAIL OFFICER CONTINUES TO SEEK EXONERATION by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 23, 2019) — On Thursday, Memphis resident Earley Story went to the Shelby County courthouse at 201 Poplar Street, accompanied by an acquaintance, to file documents he said should prove him innocent of a 1999 conviction for selling marijuana to an undercover officer […]
TROUBLING PATTERN EMERGES IN 22-YEAR-OLD CONVICTION by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 15, 2019) — Since his 1999 conviction for allegedly selling marijuana to an undercover agent and confidential informant, former Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Sergeant Earley Story has been attempting to clear his name of a crime which evidence indicates he did not commit. […]
EARLEY STORY DETAILS HEARING ON DEFAULT JUDGMENT MOTION, NEW EVIDENCE PRESENTED; EYEWITNESS CORROBORATES by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 12, 2019) — On Monday, The Post & Email reported two new developments in the case of former Shelby County, tn Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Sergeant Earley Story, who was accused and ultimately convicted in 1999 of selling marijuana to an […]
BUT WILL HE RECEIVE A FAIR REVIEW? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 31, 2019) — On November 15, 2018, The Post & Email published an article detailing a 22+-year effort on the part of Memphis resident Earley Story to clear his name of a felony of which he was convicted in December 1999. The 1997 charge […]
CLAIM: “FALSE ARREST” INCARCERATES MAN FOR ALLEGED ROBBERY by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 12, 2019) — On Wednesday The Post & Email spoke with Memphis, TN resident Lillian King, whose husband, Antonio King, has been incarcerated in the Shelby County jail since April of last year on what she says is the false charge of aggravated […]
FORMER JAILER PAINTS PICTURE OF HORRENDOUS SUFFERING, ABUSE WITHIN SHELBY COUNTY JAIL by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 15, 2018) — Earley Story of Memphis, TN has been preserving evidence for more than 20 years after being accused by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) of selling marijuana on the street while he was employed as a […]
NATION OF ISLAM LEADER’S HOME WAS LOCATED IN OBAMA’S CHOSEN NEIGHBORHOOD by Maertha Trowbridge, ©2011, blogging at Terrible Truth (Nov. 5, 2011) — If you want to peek down Obama’s two fondest Memory Lanes, don’t look to Hawaii. Look to Chicago, to his ‘nest’. And to Harlem, to his choice of Red Rooster Restaurant for […]