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Hair on Pressly’s bed Vance’s, expert says

Other DNA called not as conclusive

A single tiny hair discovered on Little Rock TV news anchor Anne Pressly’s bed belongs to the man accused of killing her “within all scientific certainty,” a state DNA examiner testified Friday during the third day of testimony in Curtis Lavelle Vance’s capital-murder trial in Pulaski County Circuit Court.
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Vance trial focus on earlier attack

Victim, key in DNA link, testifies

The DNA that led to Curtis Lavelle Vance being charged in Anne Pressly’s slaying came from an attack on a Marianna schoolteacher who told a Pulaski County jury Thursday that she was raped by a burly intruder who had a distinctive voice.
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Pressly’s mom takes stand as case unfolds

Jurors asked to pay close attention

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.
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3 men added to Vance jury

Full jury, opening remarks likely today, judge indicates

Defense attorneys questioned prospective jurors about how much they know about the neighborhood of slain Little Rock TV personality Anne Pressly and whether they had ever visited her former home, as jury selection continued Tuesday in the capital-murder case against the man accused of killing her.
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Angles about Pressly put off-limits in trial

The Pulaski County Circuit judge presiding over the death-penalty trial of the man accused of killing Little Rock news anchor Anne Pressly barred prosecutors and witnesses on Monday from discussing the 26-year-old victim’s sexual experience or how much pain she might have suffered when she was attacked.
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Trial in Pressly case starts today

Prosecutors seek execution

For just more than a year, the fatal beating of TV news anchor Anne Pressly has held the attention of Little Rock and much of the state of Arkansas. This week, the public finally gets answers as prosecutors lay out their case against the Marianna man who has been linked to Pressly’s killing through both his own words and his DNA.
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Ex-NLR athletic chief gets 7 years in collision

Danny Russell, the former athletic director for North Little Rock schools, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison, with five suspended, for maiming another man in a drunken-driving accident and faces more prison time if he doesn’t pay restitution, as much as $500,000.
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Bail cut in holdup shooting of courier

A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Friday cut the $500,000 bail of a man accused of shooting a bank courier to $100,000 after the defense attorney noted that the victim couldn’t conclusively identify the defendant as his assailant.
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Prosecutors ask judge to reject trial-delay plea

Muhammad case set for Feb. 15

Pulaski County prosecutors are resisting an effort by the 24-year-old Memphis man accused of killing a soldier and wounding another to delay his February capital murder trial.
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For fire, injuries, man gets 47 years

He harmed girlfriend, jury decides

A 46-year-old Jacksonville man who admitted setting a fire that gutted his Little Rock girlfriend’s apartment was sentenced Thursday night to 47 years in prison by a Pulaski County jury that rejected counts of attempted capital murder and rape that could have put him away for life.
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