Tag: Kristina Cole
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Shelby County, TN: Appellate Panel Reverses, Remands Criminal Court’s Dismissal of Post-Conviction Claims
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 8, 2022) — A decision issued Thursday by a three-judge panel reversed a trial court’s denial of relief from post-conviction petition claims to Shelby County, TN resident Kristina Cole in a case which sentenced her to 13.5 years in state prison on drug charges. Cole’s case, prosecuted by Tennessee’s 30th Judicial…
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Jason White Hearing Rescheduled for May 19
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2022) — On Thursday Shelby County, TN Criminal Court Judge Robert “Bobby” Carter, Jr. again rescheduled a post-conviction petition hearing for inmate Jason Lamar White, this time for May 19, 2022. As The Post & Email reported Wednesday, the hearing was scheduled for April 7 following two previous postponements but…
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Latest Twist in Jason White Case: Transport Order Canceled
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 1, 2021) — In another turn of events, an order issued by Shelby County, TN Division III Criminal Court Judge Robert “Bobby” Carter for Jason Lamar White to travel from New Mexico to Tennessee for a hearing on Thursday has reportedly been canceled. A second transport order for Tennessee state inmate…
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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…