A panel of Mississippi Supreme Court justices has denied Tasha Mercedes Shelby’s appeal request after the Biloxi mother was found responsible for the death of her two-year-old stepson in 1997. Three judges handed down the decision last week stating that Shelby would not be granted a new trial despite her.
The family of Tasha Mercedes Shelby is once again asking for the court to declare her innocence after being held in prison for nearly three decades. In early June of 1997, Shelby transported her two-year-old stepson, Bryan Thompson, to the hospital after the toddler had fallen out of his bed..