“A CAREFULLY PLANNED OPERATION” by Fergus Nolan, ©2019, blogging at MemphisTruth.org (May 26, 2019) — In April 2019, we wrote about Jason White, who was framed for a pound of meth by Bartlett detectives and ADA Chris Scruggs, recipient of our first Hammer Award for over-zealous prosecution. White was, until recently, serving 60 years at […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“THE INVESTIGATORS SHOULD BE LOCKED-UP” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 1, 2018) — In a letter received on Thursday, Shelby County, TN inmate Datel Taylor reported that his public defender has left her position and that his family has shunned him as a result of a false murder charge. Taylor has contacted us on two previous […]
THROUGH “ILLEGAL” WIRETAPPING AND JUDICIAL INTERFERENCE by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 23, 2018) — On March 23, 2018, a federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee by two falsely-accused women in a case arising early last year in Shelby County, TN. The suit names three county prosecutors — […]
“MY ONLY CRIME IS BEING KENDRICK’S SISTER” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 11, 2017) — Following the publication of two articles on the conviction of Tennessee inmate Jason Lamar White in Shelby County, TN, The Post & Email was contacted by two women who said they were falsely arrested, accused, and exonerated in a different case […]
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 […]
“A HUGE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 11, 2017) — Over the last three weeks, The Post & Email has learned of a case involving TDOC inmate Jason Lamar White, #335720, who is serving the final months of a 21-year sentence for a burglary in which he participated when he was a youth. […]
INMATE ALLEGES “3 RIOTS AND ONE PEACEFUL PROTEST” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 2, 2017) — Last week, The Post & Email received a letter dated January 18, 2017 in which an inmate at the Shelby County jail in Memphis, TN conveyed a heretofore unreported story to this publication of three “riots” plus a “peaceful” protest […]
“JUSTICE HAS TO COME AT SOME POINT” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 19, 2016) — Two recent letters received from inmates at the Shelby County, TN jail reported that Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich was under some type of investigation for conduct associated with her duties as the chief prosecutor for Tennessee’s 30th Judicial […]