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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Oct 1, 2024

Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, has joined State Comptroller Jason Mumpower in calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk’s office, according to the Tennessean. Those calls come after the state attorney general declined to pursue the matter. The comptroller's office on Sept. 25 released an investigative report, which found that Funk’s office secretly recorded criminal defense attorneys, office employees and visitors. Metro Nashville Chief Public Defender Martesha Johnson Moore's office also has weighed in on the issue, releasing a statement that it is "deeply troubled" by the report's findings and requesting that Funk's office disclose closed and pending cases in which the surveillance occurred as well as the identities of the prosecutors involved.