There are 4 article(s) tagged Conviction Review Unit:

• September 2026

  • Opinion: ‘Judge Coffee, release Andrew Hayes’

    “The true measure of a justice system is not whether it can claim perfection. It is whether the justice system has the courage to correct itself when it discovers that it failed.”

    By William E. Arnold Jr. September 21, 2026

• March 2022

  • MICAH pushes for a conviction review unit at virtual town hall

    Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich, seeking a second eight-year term, has resisted creating a conviction review unit. 

    By Ian Round March 10, 2022

  • Exoneration efforts stalled by evidence destruction

    Some states require police to keep DNA evidence until the person convicted dies. But in Tennessee, it can be destroyed after a conviction is rendered, leaving no way for many cases to be revisited.

    By Ian Round March 07, 2022

• January 2022

  • Nashville Conviction Review Unit could be a model for Shelby County

    Sunny Eaton, who runs Nashville’s Conviction Review Unit, said, “These wins are the kind that are absolutely changing lives for people who never deserved to be in that position.”

    By Ian Round January 17, 2022