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 […]
AND WHAT IS “PROPER PROCEDURE” FOR HER REPLACEMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 26, 2018) — Approximately two weeks ago, The Post & Email came into possession of a court order emanating from the “Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee” indicating that a long-term foreman of the county grand jury, Mary Thomas, was removed from her […]
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 […]
“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 — […]
PLAINTIFFS CLAIM JUDGE PURSUED “PERSONAL VENDETTA” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 6, 2018) — On March 23, 2018, two former co-defendants from Shelby County, TN filed suit in federal court in response to their false arrest, detention and criminal charges based on altered evidence which they were able to prove. The lawsuit was filed at the U.S. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A “CONDESCENDING COURTROOM VERBAL DISSERTATION” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 30, 2016) — As related in earlier articles with this title in part 1 here and part 2 here, TDOC inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III described his having been subpoenaed to testify in an August 16 post-conviction hearing for an inmate from Shelby County. Fitzpatrick was […]
“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. […]
SHELBY COUNTY JUDGE “ASSUMED THE ROLE OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 25, 2016) — Approximately two weeks ago, The Post & Email received a lengthy letter from U.S. Navy veteran and Tennessee inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III describing a hearing which took place in Shelby County, TN on August 16 for which he […]
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 […]