A new unit within the district attorney’s office will be taking a fresh look at cases where the defendant says they were wrongfully convicted. It’s called the Justice Review Unit, or JRU, and it was officially launched on Thursday. “Whenever you have a wrongful conviction, it’s obviously a profound injustice for the defendant themselves, that’s reason enough to have a JRU to correct those injustices, but also from a public safety perspective, if you’ve got a wrongfully convicted person, that means the real offender is still walking the streets of Shelby County,” said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy in a press conference.
Steve Mulroy
Steve Mulroy