City councilman Berlin Boyd was fast tracked into public office as a result of two prior appointments before getting elected to serve a full four-year term in 2015 as the city council representative for District 7. Like some, I hoped he’d rise to the occasion. His early ambition to move forward on the Mow to […]
The 2018 lawsuit which ACLU fought and won has produced tens of thousands of pages of documents. “On March 2, 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee intervened in Blanchard v. City of Memphis, a lawsuit challenging the City of Memphis’ creation of a list of people, including multiple members of the Black Lives Matter […]
Readers of our City Council Election blog may have noticed that, instead of writing about Thurston Smith, I inserted a legal disclaimer. Now I can reveal the full story. On the fifth of July I was served with a temporary Order of Protection (PDF) filed by Thurston Smith. The order is a tissue of lies, […]
We have another Authorization of Agency case to share, this time that of Dan Rosson, against whom Memphis Animal Services, in collaboration with City Chief Operating Officer Doug McEwen, have created an AoA. Once again, the City has used AoA to silence a political opponent. AoA and the City Blacklist. Authorization of Agency first came […]
Rodney Fisher made video of a visit from an unidentified MPD officer on the evening of July 25th, around 10 PM. Fisher is admin of the Memphis (Real News) facebook page. We transcribed the conversation. Police Officer: (talking on phone outside front door): AoAs, all right. Yes, sir. (Hangs up cellphone). Police Officer: (talking to […]
We reported on the behind-the-scenes manipulations of Caissa Public Strategy back in 2017. Our identification of the Caissa Seven at the time had predictive value, although we overestimated Kemp Conrad’s Caissa spend at a time when some documents were unavailable at the Election Commission. We also missed a year-end 2014 contribution of $500 by Caissa […]
Last week we had the tragedy of Brandon Webber, who was killed on June 12th by US Marshals in the driveway of his family’s Frayser home. His bereaved parents spoke out in a June 14th vigil at the site of the killing, attended by over 600 mourners. We are saddened by this violence.
June 21st 2019: Shelby County District Court Division VIII, Memphis. Judge Chris Craft, recent recipient of our Hammer Award, called Earley Story to the microphone at 09:55. Mr Story had filed a writ of Error Coram Nobis in an attempt to clear his 1998 conviction. Tony Carruthers had been subpoenaed to attend as a witness. […]
The DA’s office, long before Amy Weirich’s regime, has owned the Hammer Award. We’ll be awarding our Hammer Award to judges as well as prosecutors. Our June award winner is Judge Chris Craft, Shelby Criminal Court Division VIII. We outline his bio towards the end of this piece, but right now we’re going to […]
Last week, we saw how Jason White had been sprited to a state prison more than 1,000 miles away using the Interstate Prisoner Transfer Compact, an obscure contractual framework for prisoner rendition.
