Tennessee: Should Memphis be held liable for decades of untested rape kits?

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    Should Memphis be held liable for decades of untested rape kits?

    A Circuit Court judge held a hearing Thursday on whether the city of Memphis can be held liable for a backlog of rape evidence kits. This is lawsuit was brought on behalf of Janet Doe against the city of Memphis. A class-action lawsuit was brought by rape victims who claim the city inflicted emotional distress on them by failing to test over 12,000 rape kits. They claim the city didn’t even submit the kits to the TBI for testing. One plaintiff says it took the city ten years to submit her kit. WREG investigators first told you about the untested ...


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