TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 13, 2023

Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Melissa Boyd was indicted yesterday for coercion of a witness and harassment, the Daily Memphian reports. She was booked into the Shelby County Jail today, posted $5,000 bail and was released. The indictment accuses Boyd of attempting to coerce her campaign manager Lashanta Rudd to testify falsely or withhold truthful testimony in 2022 while Rudd was a witness in an unidentified “official proceeding.” The indictment came from Judicial District 28 District Attorney Frederick Agee since the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office recused itself from the case. Boyd has received two reprimands from the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct for failing to abide by the terms of an earlier suspension. The board referred her case to the Tennessee General Assembly last month following issuance of the second reprimand.