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UPDATE: The trial will continue Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. UPDATE: Deborah Marion, Lorenzen Wright’s mother, ran out of the courtroom after the prosecutor asked for the 911 call to be played. UPDATE: Claudia Robinson said “J” showed up to the house to pick up the money. Turner was present at the time and he […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The trial for the last suspect facing charges in the Lorenzen Wright murder case began with jury selection Monday. After years of delays due to COVID, Billy Ray Turner’s case finally appeared before a judge Monday. Turner has been in jail since 2017. The trial will continue on Tuesday, March 15 at […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The last person facing charges in the Lorenzen Wright murder case is set to go to trial next week. Billy Ray Turner has been in jail since 2017, but he maintains his innocence in the killing of the basketball stand-out. After years of delays because of COVID, the discovery of missed evidence […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Plenty of families in the Memphis area know the pain of losing someone to violence, but one of the largest organizations to support families of murder victims doesn’t even have a chapter in Memphis or in Tennessee. That is about to change. Parents of Murdered Children will soon offer services here thanks […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sherra Wright withdrew her petition to have her case overturned during a brief court appearance on Tuesday. After admitting to her role in the death of Memphis Grizzlies basketball player Lorenzen Wright, attorneys for Wright originally told a judge they were going to try to overturn her plea deal during a hearing scheduled for […]

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

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The courtroom was ready, and the judge called the case, but Sherra Wright’s new attorney, who is handling her post conviction lawsuit was a no show. “I do not know where the lawyer is. We have tried to get him here for the last hour and 15 minutes,” said Judge Lee Coffee. […]

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 […]

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.

Memphis, Tenn. — We heard plenty about Sherra Wright’s behavior in jail during her court appearances, but now we have a look at what Wright says was happening. At the end of last year, she filed a lawsuit in federal court against Shelby County Jail East, two sergeants and two correctional officers. Wright, ex-wife of NBA […]

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 […]