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Working alongside the Tennessee Innocence Project, Bass Berry & Sims PLC committed more than 4,000 hours of pro bono work to challenge the wrongful convictions of three Black men. Thanks to those efforts, Wayne Burgess, Artis Whitehead and Thomas Clardy all walked free last year after collectively spending 62 years behind bars.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who spent nearly 21 years behind bars for a robbery on Beale Street was released from prison Friday after being exonerated of the crime. Artis Whitehead was 40 years old when he was sentenced to 249 years behind bars for a 2002 robbery at B.B. King’s Blues Club. Attorneys with […]