Sherra Wright, the ex-wife of slain basketball star Lorenzen Wright, has withdrawn her request to overturn her guilty plea in the death.

Wright appeared in court Tuesday, Aug. 10, to make the request. She was transported to the Memphis court from a Nashville prison where she is serving a 30-year sentence. With time served, she could be eligible for parole in eight years.

As a result of the withdrawal, Wright can never make the request again.

Sherra Wright filed the petition for post-conviction relief earlier this year. 

Ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright wants guilty plea thrown out

At the time Wright pleaded guilty to facilitation to commit murder in the first-degree in connection with her former husband’s July 19, 2010, death, she told Shelby County Judge Lee Coffee she understood she was waiving her right to appeal the 30-year sentence. She was sentenced July 25, 2019.

The trial of her co-defendant in the case, Billy Ray Turner, a deacon at the Collierville church Sherra Wright once attended, is set for Jan. 31, 2022. It was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Asked why his client withdrew the petition, court-appointed attorney Roberto Garcia Jr. said Tuesday that Wright did not want him to talk to the media.

Lorenzen Wright, who was 34 at the time of his death, was shot 11 times July 19, 2010. His body was found in Callis Cutoff, a grassy field in Southeast Memphis. He spent 13 years playing in the NBA after playing at the University of Memphis and Booker T. Washington High School.

For nearly a decade, Sherra Wright said she knew nothing about the death and the case went cold. That changed after her cousin, Jimmie Martin, led police in November 2017 to the murder weapon that had been tossed into a Mississippi lake.

Sherra Wright and Turner were arrested in December 2017 and charged in the death. Turner maintains his innocence and has remained in jail on a $15 million bond.

In an ESPN special, “A Murder in Memphis,” Sherra Wright last month pointed the finger at Martin as the person who orchestrated the murder.

Martin, who is in prison for killing his girlfriend, told authorities in 2017 about an unsuccessful plot in which he said Sherra Wright tried to kill her husband in Atlanta.

Martin also told authorities he and Turner helped Sherra Wright clean up the crime scene after Lorenzen Wright’s death and that he led police to the gun used to kill Wright.