Pressly’s mom takes stand as case unfolds
Jurors asked to pay close attention
Photo by Rick McFarland
Patti Cannady , mother of Ann Pressly, after testifying Wednesday against Curtis Lavelle Vance, who is on trial for murdering Pressly.
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Testimony began Wednesday in the capital-murder trial of the man accused of killing TV news anchor Anne Pressly, with jurors hearing from Pressly’s mother and the emergency-room doctor who treated her after she was brutally attacked in her Little Rock home last year.
“She was beyond recognition,” her mother, Patti Cannady, told jurors. “Her hair was matted with blood.”
Cannady said she discovered Pressly, wearing only a T-shirt, in bed at Pressly’shome in the Heights neighborhood on Oct. 20, 2008.
Curtis Lavelle Vance, a Marianna man accused of raping and beating Pressly during a break-in at her home, is also charged with rape, residential burglary and theft in the case.
Pressly, who worked at Little Rock’s KATV ...
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ahbeavers says...
Poor legal defense; you cannot have two victims.
November 5, 2009 at 5:55 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Hangin_Judge says...
I'm sick & tired of all these criminals having so many loop-holes in the system that they are made out to be the victims. Anne Pressly was an amazing person who did nothing but give to her community. She was the VICTIM of a cowardly pervert who now wants us to feel sorry for him because of his upbringing & the fact that he was tool lazy to learn when he was in school. I don't care how stupid you are, or how you were treated as a child, if you kill or rape an innocent person, you deserve to die. I say take all of the murders & rapeists out to the middle of the ocean, tie them to a concrete block & feed them to the fish. Remember, they had a choice to do what they did, the victims didn't have a choice.
November 5, 2009 at 7:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
conservativearkansan says...
Another one that should be on the list for public execution...to get the word out that we don't screw around with criminals in Arkansas
November 6, 2009 at 4:53 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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