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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "Interrogations"

Suffering two bullet wounds to her torso, murder victim Tamara Hodges drove her white 1994 Honda Accord into the parking lot of this Domino’s Pizza store on Union Avenue in June 2013, blowing her horn for help and then falling out of her car onto the pavement. Police charged Brandon Taylor, now 28, with first-degree murder. Facing a life sentence, Taylor was set free last month after a jury rejected the first-degree murder charge and instead convicted him of criminally negligent homicide, in part because of doubts raised by detectives’ unrecorded interrogation of Taylor. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)

Suffering two bullet wounds to her torso, murder victim Tamara Hodges drove her white 1994 Honda Accord into the parking lot of this Domino’s Pizza store on Union Avenue in June 2013, blowing her horn for help and then falling out of her car onto the pavement. Police charged Brandon Taylor, now 28, with first-degree murder. Facing a life sentence, Taylor was set free last month after a jury rejected the first-degree murder charge and instead convicted him of criminally negligent homicide, in part because of doubts raised by detectives’ unrecorded interrogation of Taylor. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)

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MPD still not recording interrogations of murder suspects, despite plans

As the Memphis Police Department struggles to catch up with a nationwide movement to reform interrogations, its failure to record lets an accused murderer...

Marc PerrusquiaDecember 21, 2018