TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jul 5, 2024

Defense attorneys for the widow of Gershun Freeman, a Shelby County Jail inmate who died in custody in 2022, have subpoenaed Memphis attorney Allan Wade's office in the federal civil lawsuit about Freeman’s death. The Daily Memphian reports that the subpoena seeks written communications, documents and phone calls between Wade’s office and the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and any of the nine officers who have been charged in Freeman’s death, charges which range from aggravated assault to second-degree murder. Freeman died in October 2022 after an altercation with corrections deputies at the jail, during what his widow’s lawsuit describes as a “mental health crisis.”