LOST IN THE BUREAUCRACY by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 27, 2019) — Approximately three weeks ago, The Post & Email received a lengthy letter and enclosure from Tennessee resident and federal-level inmate Jesse Robert Coop, who was convicted on eight counts last year stemming from a robbery in Memphis. The letter was sent from the Shelby […]
“IT’S NOTHING BUT A COMEDY SHOW” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 22, 2019) — Acting as his own attorney, former Shelby County sergeant Earley Story attended a hearing Friday in his continued quest to clear his name of a 20-year-old felony conviction which destroyed his career and earning potential, the effects of which he said he […]
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 […]
WHY WAS EARLEY STORY CHARGED WITH A CRIME? by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 10, 2019) — The National Police Defense Foundation (NPDF) on Sunday issued a press release requesting the launch of an FBI investigation into the 1999 conviction of former Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Sgt. Earley Story on a drug charge. Founded in […]
FORMER JAILER HAS LIVED WITH FALSE FELONY CONVICTION FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 8, 2019) — On Monday morning, former Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office sergeant Earley Story attended a hearing at the Shelby County Justice Center, a continuation of a proceeding he requested last fall in an attempt to overturn a […]
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 […]
TROUBLING PATTERN EMERGES IN 22-YEAR-OLD CONVICTION by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 15, 2019) — Since his 1999 conviction for allegedly selling marijuana to an undercover agent and confidential informant, former Shelby County, TN Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Sergeant Earley Story has been attempting to clear his name of a crime which evidence indicates he did not commit. […]
EARLEY STORY DETAILS HEARING ON DEFAULT JUDGMENT MOTION, NEW EVIDENCE PRESENTED; EYEWITNESS CORROBORATES by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 12, 2019) — On Monday, The Post & Email reported two new developments in the case of former Shelby County, tn Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Sergeant Earley Story, who was accused and ultimately convicted in 1999 of selling marijuana to an […]
IN HIS QUEST FOR JUSTICE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 11, 2019) — On Monday morning, Shelby County, TN resident Earley Story, who maintains he was falsely charged in 1997 for allegedly selling marijuana to an undercover agent, had a hearing in Division VIII of the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center in Memphis with the purpose […]
TRIAL DATE SET FOR DECEMBER 16 by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 1, 2019) — On Wednesday, Memphis resident and “Memphis Truth Commission” blogger Fergus Nolan attended a scheduling hearing in a case filed by two local women claiming civil-rights violations on the part of Shelby County, the City of Memphis, and three assistant prosecutors after they […]
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 […]
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 […]