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Public Records & Notices View a complete day’s public records and notices at memphisdailynews.com. www.chandlerreports.com Friday, January 17, 2020 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 135 | No. 10 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ No trial date set Champion for suff rage monument for man accused in 2010 death of never misses beat, chance to vote basketball star YOLANDA JONES Courtesy of The Daily Memphian No trial date was set Wednesday, Jan. 15, for Billy Ray Turner, charged with first-degree murder in the July 2010 death of Lorenzen Wright. The case was instead reset for Feb. 11. Turner, 48, has been in jail for two years, 1 month and 10 days in connection with the fatal shooting of Wright, a former NBA and University of Memphis basketball player. The trial for Turner was initially set to begin Sept. 16, but it was delayed after pros- ecutors turned over new discovery informa- tion to Turner’s defense attorney. His co-defendant, Wright’s ex-wife, Sher- ra Wright, pleaded guilty July 25 to facilita- tion of first-degree murder in her former husband’s slaying and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. She could be eligible for pa- role in eight years. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee said the attorneys needed more time to interview witnesses and to investigate, and that is why the trial date was reset again. Coffee said if attorneys do not offer a trial date when they report back to court Feb. 11, he will set the date. John Keith Perry, Turner’s attorney, said With the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment approaching, Paula Casey has helped raise nearly $732,500 his client maintains his innocence. Perry to construct a monument honoring suffragists from Shelby County, both male and female. (Patrick Lantrip/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) said he is in “trial preparation mode” for the case, and he predicted a trial in early fall. JANE ROBERTS critical the city was in the final victory. Before the trial date was reset Wednes- Courtesy of The Daily Memphian “All the members of the Shelby County legislative day, a few protesters stood outside the Wal- Four other cities in Tennessee have monuments delegation supported suffrage, which was huge. The ter L. Bailey Jr. Criminal Justice Center at to suffragists and the role the Tennessee Legislature rest of the state was divided. Memphis is the reason 201 Poplar with a huge banner that read ‘’2 played ratifying the 19th Amendment, giving women the vote passed in Nashville. We need to claim that. Shooters still on the run. Justice4Lorenzen- the right to vote. It’s important for people to know that.” Wright.com.” In late March, 100 years after the amendment’s The “Equality Trailblazers” monument will in- The four people who were protesting ratification, Memphis will have its own, thanks to clude six bronze busts of local figures, some critical were with J-Project, a justice ministry made Paula Casey, the wiry and willful advocate for this to the movement, including the monument’s lone up of psychic and prophetic healers who chapter of American history, which blazes in her soul. male, Joe Hanover. Others, Casey says, were able to work to solve cold cases, said Abigail Noel, “This is our opportunity to tell the world that Ten- lead remarkable lives as elected public servants be- who founded the organization. nessee was the state that made it possible,” she said cause women had the right to vote, including state Noel, who said she is a psychic investi- from a roadside stop somewhere between Memphis Rep. Lois DeBerry. gator, said the “soul essence” of Lorenzen and Nashville late Friday, Jan. 10, part of tireless travel “The suffragists made it possible for those who fol- Wright came to her in 2010. and speaking schedule she’s keeping as the Tennessee lowed,” she said. “They never would have been elected “Lorenzen Wright started telling me anniversary approaches on Aug. 18, 2020. to office and been able to do the work they did without what happened to him and I have been 100% “I grew up in Nashville and graduated from UT- the suffragists.” accurate in this case,” Noel said. Knoxville,” she said. “I was 21 before I knew about Besides Hanover and DeBerry, the busts include She said she met with law enforcement any of this.” She wants the people of Memphis to know just how MONUMENT CONTINUED ON P3 WRIGHT CONTINUED ON P2 INSIDE Public Records ................ 4 Public Notices ............... 11 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Marriage licenses are unavailable ©2020 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company while Shelby County Clerk’s O ffi ce Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 135th year information since 1968 reviews internal policies for it’s Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information digital platforms. Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Friday, January 17, 2020 about providing Memphis with some form of William Eggleston Eggleston Art Foundation starts museum. Eggleston’s family thought Rutledge would be the right per- son to head up that project. ‘living legacy’ with Dixon art show “For various reasons, it ulti- mately didn’t come to be, but we JARED BOYD the Dixon” plays on the idea of an really credit the foundation to Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Photographer William inter-generational conversation the generosity of the person who Work by the renowned photog- Eggleston between the 80-year-old Egg- sponsored that project and all the rapher William Eggleston could works with leston and Steinkamp, who is just work that went into it, because it justify a museum of its own, says publisher under 20 years his junior. started these conversations,” Rut- art historian Virginia Rutledge. Gerhard Steidl The show will display work ledge said. But the Memphis-based Egg- of Steidlverlag by the artists based on floral and Rutledge, who studied art his- leston Art Foundation that Rut- in December garden scenes. The trademark vi- tory and philosophy at what was ledge directs has a different plan 2019. brant color in Eggleston’s work, then Memphis State University, to honor his storied career in con- (Courtesy Eggleston rooted in realism, contrasts with before studying art history at City temporary art. Art Foundation) Steinkamp’s equally stark, com- University of New York and law “You have this man, this artist, puter-generated still-life imagery. at University of California Berke- whose influence is everywhere. “It really is about connecting. ley, also sees Brooks Museum of But the influence also comes from And a legacy is just kind of static Art and Crosstown Arts as po- a kind of attitude toward life,” in a museum and a book, although tential partners for the Eggleston said Rutledge, a former curator at those are both incredibly impor- Foundation. the Los Angeles County Museum tant ways that we learn about cul- “We want to really be able to of Art. ture and we get to have dialogues bring things that would be hard “His lifestyle might not be ev- lifestyle; one in which your life about his work, the foundation with people who aren’t around to see otherwise; unless you’re eryone’s cup of tea, but what there is arranged to facilitate your art. will program events which extend anymore,” Rutledge said. able to go to New York frequently, is is a real commitment. He had a “So, the more we talked about his influence. That includes host- “But the idea is to have a liv- or abroad,” Rutledge said. vision he believed in, and he ar- it, we decided that what we wanted ing shows with work by Eggleston ing legacy.” “What we know is going to ranged his life to keep working.” to do was programming that was and younger artists whose art The Museum of Modern Art in happen is that a lot of people are Rutledge said she, the artist pretty much on the cutting edge of shares similar themes, regardless New York hosted a solo Eggleston going to come to Memphis because and his family decided the best contemporary art, because that’s of medium. show in 1976 and the Whitney of their interest in Eggleston. And way for the foundation to honor where Eggleston always has been.” The first such event will open Museum of American Art in- they’re going to go, ‘Oh! I had no his work in his hometown was to While overseeing Eggleston’s at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens stalled an Eggleston retrospec- idea. I thought I knew there was invest in resources that help art- archive and serving as a resource Jan. 26. “William Eggleston and tive in 2008. The idea for the some blues coming out of this city, ists achieve an Eggleston-esque for research and publications Jennifer Steinkamp: At Home at foundation grew from discussions but look at all of this.’” Dogwood cell tower approved by G’town Board of Education ABIGAIL WARREN District officials hope the approval Courtesy of The Daily Memphian process is complete by spring so con- Germantown’s Board of Education struction can begin while students are unanimously approved a contract with on summer break. Tower Ventures Monday night, Jan. 13, The Board of Education previously in a step toward a cell tower on Dog- approved a site farther away from the wood Elementary School property. school but still on school property. The planned tower would be 180 However, a grant given to Shelby feet from the school building. County Schools was in place when the School board chair Rebecca Lu- school’s ownership was transferred ter said this is an amendment to a from Shelby County Schools to GMSD, contract.