Billboard Campaign Exposes Memphis Prosecutor Amy Weirich’s Serial Misconduct

Amy Weirich has served as Shelby County District Attorney General since 2014, but her reign of terror began many years before that as a deputy prosecutor in the same office. Weirich’s record as a prosecutor, and as the top prosecutor responsible for the entire office, is rife with performing, condoning, and encouraging inappropriate behavior and misconduct. 

She and her office routinely fail to turn over evidence to defense lawyers that state law and the federal constitution require prosecutors to disclose. Weirich herself has made inappropriate remarks during closing arguments in murder cases, and even cases where she asked a jury to sentence a person to die in Tennessee’s execution chamber. Her behavior is so atrocious that the state supreme court had to reverse multiple convictions that she obtained, and the state legal ethics board reprimanded her. 

Here’s a revealing snippet from the website, AmyWeirichFiles:

Tomorrow morning, outside the courthouse in Memphis, as judges, lawyers, and citizens walk in and out of the halls of justice, they will have the opportunity to view a mobile billboard campaign that aims to better introduce the public to Amy Weirich’s disgraceful record on prosecutorial misconduct: