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When Iris Stewart joined the District Attorney’s Office in November of 1994, there were 97 employees and the daily dockets for all 10 Criminal Court divisions were placed in one small closet.

An Alabama man whose DNA linked him to the 1998 rape of a Parkway Village woman was convicted Wednesday by a Criminal Court jury, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 64-year-old man was convicted as charged Tuesday of raping the 12-year-old daughter of a friend in a rooming house they shared in South Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men who intervened with gunfire in a neighborhood argument last year have been indicted on first-degree murder in the death of one of the neighbors, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A juvenile defendant has been indicted in a drive-by shooting last summer in which a Hickory Hill man was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 21-year-old man was convicted Friday in a 2018 case in which two cousins were shot, one of them fatally, while trailing suspected car thieves in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An intoxicated, speeding motorist who struck and killed Memphis Police Lt. Myron Fair two years ago pled guilty Friday to aggravated vehicular homicide and 13 other criminal counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A bakery employee has been convicted of attempting to kill his supervisor in a workplace shooting in 2019 in a Whitehaven distribution center off of Brooks Road, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 53-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on reckless vehicular homicide felony charges related to a 2019 crash in which a motorcyclist was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 26-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony counts related to the death of an elderly man whose decomposed body was found last summer in his Berclair-area home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A suspected serial rapist who was set to be tried Monday on a 2008 rape case involving a 12-year-old girl pled guilty to that case and to seven other pending cases, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two Memphis men have been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony counts related to the fatal shooting of a motorcyclist and the wounding of his passenger last December in the Fox Meadows area of southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 27-year-old man has been indicted in the death of a co-worker last year who was found in his bullet-riddled car in the Hickory Hill area of southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southwest Memphis woman has been indicted in the stabbing death last year of her elderly disabled mother, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis driver has been indicted on multiple felony counts related to an interstate crash last year in which a 69-year-old woman in another vehicle was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Westwood-area woman has been indicted on a second-degree murder count stemming from the stabbing death of her 63-year-old boyfriend last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

When prosecutor Paul Goodman started in the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office, the average price for a car was just over $10,000, gas was 89 cents a gallon, stamps were 24 cents apiece, and eggs were 65 cents a dozen.

A jury Friday convicted a 40-year-old man of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man in a 2017 robbery that left the defendant with a gunshot wound of his own, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 29-year-old man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and other felonies related to a 2013 home invasion in which an acquaintance was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Eight adult relatives living in a community-home arrangement in Bartlett with 10 children have been indicted on first-degree felony murder charges related to the starvation death of one of the children last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.