Tag: Bartlett Police Department
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Life-Imprisoned Tennessee Inmate Submits “Newly Available Evidence” in Six-Year-Old Drug Conviction Case
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 12, 2023) — On June 26, Tennessee state inmate Jason Lamar White, who has been housed in New Mexico since 2019, filed a Writ of Error Coram Nobis with the Shelby County, TN Criminal Court, Division III, to report “newly available evidence” he claimed will demonstrate his innocence of the 2016…
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My Story
by Kristina Cole, ©2023 May 19, 2023 My name is Kristina Cole and I am a 49-year-old black single mother of now three grown children. Seven years ago at 42 years of age, I was arrested and later convicted of two counts of Conspiracy – Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine in a Drug Free Zone and…
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Tennessee Sentences Man to Life in Prison in Bait-and-Switch Scheme
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 4, 2021) — A 40-year-old Tennessee man serving a 60-year sentence for a crime to which another inmate confessed is attempting to exercise his due process rights at an upcoming hearing on August 27 in Shelby County, TN. Jason Lamar White, who has been housed in New Mexico since May 2019,…
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Two Inmates Continue to Seek Redress in Case of Falsely-Addressed Package, Third-Party Confession
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 22, 2021) — Two co-defendants in a 2017 case arising in Shelby County, TN remain in prison despite faulty testimony proffered against them at trial and a confession from a third defendant who is also imprisoned. The case arose after a package from an unidentified sender in Visalia, CA arrived on…
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Shelby County, TN: Mother of Convicted Inmate Refutes Media Report
IF THE PRESS CANNOT REPORT ACCURATELY, HOW ARE THE PEOPLE TO KNOW? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 6, 2017) — An article in The Commercial Appeal dated October 29, 2017 contains a number of misstatements, according to the mother of the inmate named in the first paragraph. Kimberly White, mother of Tennessee state inmate Jason Lamar…
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Shelby County, TN: What “Evidence” was Used to Convict Three People…
WITH ONE CONFESSION? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 18, 2017) — As part of our follow-up on a case arising in Shelby County, TN in which three people have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for allegedly participating in a drug operation, The Post & Email made several calls to the Shelby County District Attorney General‘s…