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Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, by a 6–2 vote, that it is a violation of a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights for the prosecutor to comment to the jury on the defendant's declining to testify, or for the judge to instruct the jury that such silence is evidence of guilt.
Man charged in Memphis reverend's murder files for venue change, requests private records be admissible in trial. The man charged with killing Memphis Rev. Autura Eason-Williams in July 2022 has ...
From 1999-2000, he served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney (a federal prosecutor) in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2000, he began teaching at the University of Memphis, School of Law, attaining tenure in 2006. [2] In 2006, he was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 2010, from full Professor of Law.
A grand jury is a jury empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may subpoena physical evidence or a person to testify. A grand jury is separate from the courts, which do not preside over its functioning. [1]
A jury reached verdicts Thursday in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols, according to NBC News affiliate WMC.
A federal grand jury has indicted the five former Memphis police officers involved in the death of Tyre Nichols. The men — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr ...
Tyre Deandre Nichols (June 5, 1993 – January 10, 2023) [13] was a 29-year-old black man. Nichols worked for FedEx, [14] [15] and was an amateur photographer with a photography website. [16] [17] [18] Nichols was raised in Sacramento, California, and moved to Memphis in 2020. [19] His mother is RowVaughn Wells. [20]
A man charged with killing Young Dolph cannot get a fair trial in Memphis due to the intense media attention and “public visceral outrage” over the slaying of the beloved rapper in his ...