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A Tennessee judge has set a new trial date for a man charged with conspiring with the ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright to kill the former NBA player nearly 11 years ago in Memphis.

Sherra Wright withdrew her petition to have her case overturned during a brief court appearance on Tuesday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sherra Wright was set for a hearing in a Memphis court Tuesday seeking to have her guilty plea overturned in the 2010 murder of her ex-husband, NBA player Lorenzen Wright. However, the hearing will be reset after Wright’s lawyer could not be reached. Wright pleaded guilty to facilitation of murder in July […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sherra Wright, her children and supporters testified on her behalf in a parole hearing Wednesday, as Lorenzen Wright’s family and law enforcement officials spoke against her release. If parole is granted, Wright could be released three years after she was sentenced to serve 30. “I’m sorry for what happened to him. I’m […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic is causing a big back up in the courts. Usually 200 cases are tried at the Criminal Justice Center in a year. This year they have tried just 20. Judge Lee Coffee, of the Shelby County Criminal Court -Division 7, spoke to WREG-TV about the impacts of […]

The case against the man accused of killing NBA basketball player Lorenzen Wright was reset on Monday due to the pandemic. As WREG has learned, it’s one of the many cases that have had to be rescheduled after the Supreme Court deemed it unsafe to hold jury trials amid a pandemic.

The man accused of murdering Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright will not go on trial as scheduled next week.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Billy Ray Turner, the man accused of killing Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright, will head to trial this fall. On Tuesday, a Shelby County judge announced Turner would have another hearing in April followed by trial on October 26, more than a year after the original trial date of September 2019. His […]

Billy Ray Turner, one of the defendants in the Lorezen Wright murder case, appeared in a Shelby County courtroom on Thursday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of people fighting for justice for former Memphis Grizzlies and Tigers player Lorenzen Wright hosted a vigil at his grave site Saturday morning and marched more than four miles, calling for justice. Even though Wright’s ex-wife has been convicted in his murder and another man is awaiting trial, they say […]

Billy Ray Turner, one of the defendants in the Lorezen Wright murder case, was briefly in a Shelby County courtroom on Monday for a hearing.