A federal judge has rejected a death-row inmate’s claim that surveillance tape proves his innocence in the 1993 slaying of a college student at a Little Rock laundromat.
In an order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes found that inmate Terrick Nooner’s claims don’t prove his innocence in the shooting death of student Scot Stobaugh.
At a September hearing, Nooner’s attorneys argued that another man, Robert Rockett, was the gunman and that surveillance tape proved Nooner’s innocence. Holmes rejected that claim, noting that the gunman in the video was right-handed and that Rockett said he was left-handed.
Stobaugh was shot seven times in the back and side at a Fun Wash in Little Rock. Nooner was sentenced to death and Rockett was convicted as a co-conspirator.