A man disgruntled about the handling of his divorce was charged Saturday with the murder of a Memphis attorney shot to death a day earlier in a downtown parking garage.
Memphis police charged Harold Don Noel, 48, of 2765 Ketchum No. 1, with first-degree murder in the death of defense attorney Robert Friedman on Friday morning.
Friedman, 52, was shot to death about 8:20 a.m. by a man who approached the lawyer as he arrived for work in the garage of the 100 N. Main building.
In a press conference police called Saturday afternoon, Deputy Chief Bob Wright said Noel apparently held a grudge against Friedman in connection with the lawyer's handling of Noel's divorce in 1998 or 1996.
Public records indicate that a Chancery Court granted Noel a divorce in June 1998 from Nina M. Noel.
The public court records clearly show the divorce was final on May 20, 1996. I don't understand the reason for the sloppy reporting identifying the date of the divorce as June 1998. I am including these remarks in case Mr. Noel never makes it to trial or pleads guilty.This is the same paper reporting "anti-abortionists" are responsible for strapping a bomb to the Shelby County medical examiner and that Katherine Smith may have committed suicide by pouring gasoline on herself and then setting herself on fire. Pardon my skepticism