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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

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Hope Chambers, the mother of Terrell Johnson, talks about the interrogation of her son by Memphis Police investigators. Terrell, now 21, was 17 when he falsely confessed to being a getaway driver in the 2013 slaying of contractor J.P. Shelley. “He just said, ‘OK. I was in the car with them,’ ’’ recalled Chambers, who was escorted out of the Memphis Police Department interrogation room before her son confessed. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Hope Chambers, the mother of Terrell Johnson, talks about the interrogation of her son by Memphis Police investigators. Terrell, now 21, was 17 when he falsely confessed to being a getaway driver in the 2013 slaying of contractor J.P. Shelley. “He just said, ‘OK. I was in the car with them,’ ’’ recalled Chambers, who was escorted out of the Memphis Police Department interrogation room before her son confessed. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

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Memphis police reluctant to record interrogations of homicide suspects

MPD trails other law enforcement agencies in audio, video documentation of homicide interrogations

Marc PerrusquiaSeptember 17, 2018