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Shelby County District Attorney, Steve Mulory, in an exclusive interview with Bluff City Magazine gives insight in the D.A's office, the judicial commission, bail, crime deterrent and racial disparities among the African American communities. Read the full interview here.

The Memphis teen accused of exchanging gunfire with an off-duty Memphis Police officer in late April never went through Shelby County's new bail hearing process, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said.

Steve Mulroy, the Shelby County district attorney, repeatedly stressed in a news conference Tuesday that the decision not to charge Mr. Hemphill did not fully absolve him. But he noted that Mr. Hemphill was not among the officers who initially stopped Mr. Nichols on his drive home. And while Mr. Hemphill fired a Taser at Mr. Nichols as he fled, he was not among the officers who chased Mr. Nichols and brutally beat and kicked him near his home.

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, whose prompt reaction to events in the Tyre Nichols case won him plaudits nationally and internationally, got the chance last week to do some boasting of his own — before a jury of his peers.

The occasion was Thursday’s annual spring meeting of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice section at The Peabody, where Mulroy was the keynote speaker.

The men charged in Tyre Nichols’ death are not expected to return to a Shelby County courtroom until May. But the case continues to garner national attention, among other cases in Shelby County.

We’re sharing more from the county’s lead prosecutor on the cases timeline and his position on other high-profile crimes in Shelby County.

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"We should be focusing on drag racing — not drag shows," Mulroy said.

Shelby County DA Steve Mulroy spoke with The Guarding to discuss the swift charges on the five officers and criminal justice reform in Memphis.

Steve Mulroy is the District Attorney of Shelby County, Tennessee, which includes Memphis. Mulroy has been in office for a little over a year and was elected to bring down violent crime, while simultaneously ending the distrust the community has for the police.

Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy joins host Eric Barnes and the Daily Memphian reporter Julia Baker to discuss how his office is handling bail reform, juvenile crime, a court system backlog of bail hearings, and more. Wrapping up, Mulroy talks about Truth in Sentencing.

Officials with the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office officially launched its new Justice Review Unit, which will be dedicated to reviewing wrongful sentences and convictions in felony cases in Shelby County. The launch on Thursday, Dec. 1, comes nearly a month after the announcement of the unit’s formation. The unit is led by Chief Lorna McClusky and Deputy Chief Robert Gowen.

A new unit within the district attorney’s office will be taking a fresh look at cases where the defendant says they were wrongfully convicted. It’s called the Justice Review Unit, or JRU, and it was officially launched on Thursday. “Whenever you have a wrongful conviction, it’s obviously a profound injustice for the defendant themselves, that’s reason enough to have a JRU to correct those injustices, but also from a public safety perspective, if you’ve got a wrongfully convicted person, that means the real offender is still walking the streets of Shelby County,” said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy in a press conference.

From carjackings to car break ins and shootings, some lawmakers said one of the reasons is the new permitless carry law. More than a year later, Memphis leaders said that they’re taking action to exclude both Shelby and Davidson counties, the two most populous counties, from the law.

Juvenile crimes in Memphis and Shelby County are up by 40 percent, and it’s not getting any better. The Shelby County District Attorney and community leaders are trying to come up with ways to intervene with young offenders to keep them from ending up back on the streets.

The holidays can be difficult for those who lost someone close, and that grief is compounded if the loved one died in an act of violence. Families remembered the victims of homicide in Memphis and Shelby County on Monday, Nov. 28 at the Michael D. Rose on the University of Memphis campus.

Tuesday, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy was blunt on the challenges but also optimistic of his office's changes ahead in curbing crime and slowing the revolving door at 201 Poplar.

District Attorney Steve Mulroy, Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarman, Sheriff Floyd Bonner, and other community stakeholders took part in an intense three-day experience that they say could ultimately change Shelby County for the better.

“We haven’t just had a violent weekend, we’ve had a violent month and a half, we’ve had a violent decade...” said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy.

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