Memphis officer charged in Tyre Nichols death to change plea
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 2, 2023
By Daniel Trotta
(Reuters) - One of the five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols has asked a U.S. District Court judge to change his plea of not guilty in the federal civil rights case, court records showed on Wednesday.
Desmond Mills Jr., who previously pleaded not guilty along with the four other defendants, has a change of plea hearing scheduled for Thursday at 10 a.m. CDT (1500 GMT) before Judge Mark Norris in the Western District of Tennessee, the court file shows.
Mills is . . .
