TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Jan 4, 2024

A former state Supreme Court Chief justice and the first woman to lead the state's highest court will mediate the civil wrongful death suit filed by the widow of an inmate who died last year at the Shelby County Jail, reports the Daily Memphian. Janice M. Holder will oversee negotiations between lawyers for Nicole Freeman and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr., Chief Jailer Kirk Fields and the Shelby County government. Freeman is asking for $100 million for the death of her late husband, Gershun Freeman, who died Oct. 5, 2022, after an altercation with corrections officers.