TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 25, 2022

A Nashville man who was exonerated in a 2000 murder of a North Nashville woman is suing the city for $18 million, the Tennessean reports. Paul Shane Garrett was exonerated in August after a push from the Tennessee Innocence Project and a report from the Davidson County District Attorney's Conviction Review Unit. Garrett filed the suit Friday, naming the city and five individual police officers for their involvement in the investigation that sent him to prison for 10 years. The lawsuit claims officers tried to coerce Garrett into confession to the crime that he told officers nearly 50 times he did not commit. Two detectives involved in the case were later found to have “lied under oath and/or fabricated evidence on multiple occasions,” including around the time of the investigation into Garrett.