Ex-Memphis cop in transgender beating case pleads guilty to tax evasion

    * By Lawrence Buser
    * Memphis Commercial Appeal
    * Posted December 13, 2010 at 3:04 p.m.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/dec/13/ex-memphis-cop-transgender-beating-case-pleads-gui/

A former Memphis police officer who pleaded guilty in August to beating a transgender prisoner in 2008 pleaded guilty Monday to an additional charge of failing to pay more than $18,000 in federal taxes.

Bridges Sutton McRae entered the plea before U.S. Dist. Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson, who will sentence him on both cases in March.

Under a plea agreement, federal prosecutors will recommend a total sentence of two years in prison, though the judge is not bound by that agreement.