MEDIA COVERAGE & ARTICLES ON THE VERN BRASWELL CASE
MEDIA COVERAGE OF MISSING EVIDENCE THAT RESURFACED AFTER 15 YEARS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ANONYMOUS LETTER OF APOLOGY
NBC affiliate
"Former Memphis educator Vern Braswell hopes resurfaced character letters lead to prison release"
https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/05/03/former-memphis-educator-vern-braswell-hopes-resurfaced-character-letters-lead-prison-release/
NBC affiliate VIDEO
https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/video/2021/05/03/vern-braswell-hopes-letters-lead-release/
ABC affiliate
"New evidence in Vern Braswell case? Family of former school assistant principal convicted of killing wife says new evidence proves his innocence"
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/family-of-former-school-assistant-principal-convicted-of-killing-wife-says-new-evidence-proves-his-innocence/522-5def8459-efe7-4573-b9c4-44736eb68eef
PRINT MEDIA
Daily Memphian
New evidence surfaces in 16-year-old murder case
https://dailymemphian.com/article/21692/vern-braswell-sheila-braswell-amy-weirch-character-letters
The Commercial Appeal
Missing 15 years, character letters resurface in Vern Braswell murder case
Emergency Release Requested For Vern In Court Due to his cancer diagnosis & deadly COVID-19 outbreaks in his prison. Read article by local media:
How one of Vern's Black lawyers got blackballed by a White led DA's office and run out of business and out of town because she fought for Braswell
https://www.change.org/p/tennessee-governor-recall-district-attorney-amy-weirich-from-public-office
Vern's family has been fighting the obvious racism in Vern's case for years!
Article implies the reason why the injustices in Vern's case aren't as publicized is because Vern is a Black man.
https://abovethelaw.com/2017/08/pretty-white-girls-and-prosecutorial-misconduct/
Vern’s prosecutor is flippant about the discovery of withheld evidence in a sealed envelope bearing the prosecutor's initials.
https://wreg.com/news/district-attorney-amy-weirich-testifies-on-how-she-handled-murder-case/
Harvard Law discusses Vern's case and rates his prosecutor one of the worst in America for violating defendants' rights.
https://www.afmfm.org/blog/harvard-law-braswell-s-prosecutor-is-the-worst-of-the-worst-prosecutors
https://memphistruth.org/2019/04/18/amy-weirich-recidivist/
http://www.vibincblog.com/where-is-the-justice/
The moment when two lawyers discovered the hidden evidence in Vern case, how prosecutors continued to hide it, and the White defendants who got relief on their cases when Vern was refused relief.
https://www.memphisflyer.com/the-brady-bunch
New York Times article mentioned Vern's case when the same prosecutor hides evidence of innocence in another case.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/magazine/she-was-convicted-of-killing-her-mother-prosecutors-withheld-the-evidence-that-would-have-freed-her.html
Mentioned Vern's case when the same prosecutor hid information and committed misconduct in another case. Case overturned 20 years later in federal court