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Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich is strongly pushing back against statements made by a new group opposing her reelection. In a letter sent to The Commercial Appeal’s legal counsel ...
Becoming district attorney general was never a goal for Amy Weirich, even when she’d spent her entire career in the district attorney’s office.. But when then-Gov. Bill Haslam recruited then ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — District Attorney Amy Weirich was on the witness stand for almost four hours Tuesday, testifying on the job she did prosecuting the 2005 murder case of Vern Braswell.
Weirich has held the role of Shelby County District Attorney General since 2011, when she was named to the role by then-Gov. Bill Haslam. She joined the district attorney’s office in 1991 as a ...
DA Amy Weirich is personally handling the case of Andrew Thomas, who won a new trial after a ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Steve Mulroy defeated incumbent Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich in the August election with 56% of the vote to her 44%.
Monday, when commissioners considered approval of the measure, both current Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich and Shelby County District Attorney General-elect Steve Mulroy spoke ...
On Thursday night, civil rights attorney and law professor Steve Mulroy became the next elected prosecutor of Shelby County, defeating incumbent Amy Weirich.Mulroy’s election represents a new ...
In her final weeks as Shelby County District Attorney, outgoing prosecutor Amy Weirich announced Friday afternoon that her office had cleared police officers of criminal charges in three separate ...
Amy Weirich, Republican district attorney for Shelby County, Tennessee, has been dumped by voters in favor of Democrat Steve Mulroy.
In another testy debate, challenger Steve Mulroy and Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich met in front of the Rotary Club of Memphis to answer questions submitted by members of the group.
Unofficial vote totals, including early voting and all 142 precincts, gave Mulroy 56.12% of the vote (74,752 votes) to Weirich's 43.79% (58,328 votes). Absentee votes had not yet been tabulated.