TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 15, 2022

A man sentenced to 162 years in prison for theft and forgery will soon be released after a judge cut back his sentence to 15 years, the Associated Press reports. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Paula Skahan asked the district attorney’s office to investigate the sentence of Courtney Anderson, who was given the long prison term in 2000 after having been found to be a repeat offender. The DA found legal ground for reopening the case and Skahan cut Anderson’s sentence down to 15 years on Tuesday. “This was clearly an excessive sentence, the kind of overreaction that sows distrust in our system and doesn’t make us safer,” Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said in a statement.