Tag: Shelby County Criminal Court
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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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County Claims 25-Year Case Record “Destroyed,” Yet New Evidence Continues to Emerge
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 19, 2022) — The 1997 prosecution of Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Earley Story on a felony drug charge continues to yield documents Story has never seen, defying the prosecution’s contention that the case file was “destroyed” in 2005. Last month, Story was unexpectedly handed a document dated April 28,…
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Report: “Retired” Judge to Make Ruling September 15
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 10, 2022) — A ruling is expected September 15 on the post-conviction petition of Tennessee inmate Jason Lamar White, according to Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk Heidi Herron as relayed by White’s mother, Kimberly White. Herron works with the elected clerk, Heidi Kuhn, and has been employed with the criminal court…
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Two Days Before Hearing, Jason White again “Locked Down”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 3, 2022) — In early June, Tennessee inmate Jason Lamar White was transported from New Mexico to the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN in anticipation of a post-conviction petition hearing in the Shelby County Criminal Court scheduled for July 5. In May 2019, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC)…
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Walter Fitzpatrick Ejected From Witness Stand by Tennessee “Judge,” Part 2
“MR. COFFEE IS ON THE RECORD” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 26, 2016) — On Sunday, The Post & Email published an article containing the first part of a letter from Tennessee inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III describing his short-lived testimony in Shelby County on August 16 in response to a subpoena from inmate Jerome L.…
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Shelby County, TN Claims it Has No Grand Jury Foreman Appointing Orders for the Past Eight Years…
BUT AT LEAST ONE EXISTS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2016) — For nearly seven years, The Post & Email has reported on the practice of Tennessee criminal court judges’ selection of the foreman of each county grand jury by personal preference rather than from the legally-impaneled jury pool. Potential members of both grand juries…
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Shelby County, TN Charges Inmate “Indigency” Fee, Other Fines Totaling More than $16,000
“AN EMBEZZLEMENT SCHEME” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 6, 2016) — A Tennessee prison inmate has reported to The Post & Email that the Shelby County Criminal Court has assessed him for more than $16,000 in fees, fines and taxes, including a $37.50 fee for being “Indigent.” The roster of fees, dated October 14, 2013, lists…