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S Teen gets 30 years in killing at Wal-Mart


Posted: November 18, 2009 3:42 a.m.

A teenager who killed an innocent bystander at a North Little Rock Wal-Mart more than two years ago was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, chief deputy prosecutor John Johnson said.
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Vance gets life without parole

Jury rejects death penalty sought by prosecutors


Posted: November 13, 2009 5:58 a.m.

A Pulaski County jury deliberated less than three hours Thursday before deciding that Curtis Lavelle Vance should spend the rest of his life in prison for raping and killing Little Rock TV news anchor Anne Pressly in a brutal attack more than a year ago.
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Vance found guilty of all counts

Jurors must now decide Pressly killer’s sentence


Posted: November 12, 2009 5:35 a.m.

A Pulaski County jury deliberated 2 1/2 hours Wednesday before finding Curtis Lavelle Vance guilty of capital murder for fatally beating Little Rock TV news anchor Anne Pressly during an October 2008 break-in at her Little Rock home.
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Vance trial: testimony concludes

Jury deliberations to begin today


Posted: November 11, 2009 5:57 a.m.

Anne Pressly was beaten so badly she suffered catastrophic brain damage that led to her death, the Arkansas deputy chief medical examiner testified Tuesday, as testimony wrapped up in the capital murder trial of Curtis Lavelle Vance.
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Vance trial: jurors hear police interviews; detective testifies


Posted: November 10, 2009 4:19 a.m.

Pulaski County jurors on Monday heard Curtis Lavelle Vance tell police several stories about his involvement in the beating death of Little Rock TV news anchor Anne Pressly before ultimately admitting to detectives that he’d attacked the 26-year-old in her home during an October 2008 break-in.
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Hair on Pressly’s bed Vance’s, expert says

Other DNA called not as conclusive


Posted: November 7, 2009 5:20 a.m.

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


Posted: November 6, 2009 5:46 a.m.

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


Posted: November 5, 2009 5:34 a.m.

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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S 3 men added to Vance jury

Full jury, opening remarks likely today, judge indicates


Posted: November 4, 2009 4:51 a.m.

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


Posted: November 3, 2009 5:23 a.m.

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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