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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A prosecutor on Friday accused attorneys for a white Nashville police officer of a “character assassination” attempt against the Black man he's charged with fatally shooting in 2018 as the officer's first-degree murder trial approaches next month and courtroom tensions mount.
Nashville Tennessean
A major criminal justice reform initiative pushed for years by advocates has finally passed a significant milestone in Tennessee.
It’s a measure that would offer a life-altering second chance for inmates serving life in prison to prove they have been rehabilitated. Currently, a 1995 state law prohibits life-sentence inmates from having a parole eligibility hearing until after they have served 51 years.
Despite first-degree murder in the state having three possible sentences death, life in prison without parole and life in prison with the possibility of parole the 51-year waiting period for a release hearing is effectively a full life sentence, bipartisan advocates argue.
More than 140 fire/police employees denied hazard pay
NASHVILLE (WSMV) The unions representing the Nashville fire department and metro police employees have filed grievances with the city, claiming more than 140 employees have been unfairly denied COVID-19 hazard pay.
The unions claim the employees were deemed essential and were required to come to work during the pandemic and believed they would qualify for the hazard pay bonuses.
“It’s very disappointing that they somehow got excluded,” Mark Young, president of IAFF Local 140, said.
Young said the roughly 40 fire department employees who were denied range from staff inside buildings to upper-level firefighters.