John Lynch
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2 announce candidacies for Lake View jurist’s job
posted: 05/25/2013 4:55 a.m. Discuss
Attorneys Mike Reif and Cathi Compton announced their candidacies this week to replace retiring Pulaski County Circuit Judge Collins Kilgore, who presided over the landmark court case that led to a significant reshaping of how public schools in Arkansas are funded.
Teen gets 20 years for slaying
posted: 05/24/2013 4:51 a.m. Discuss
A 17-year-old from Little Rock was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for killing a man who had gone out for pizza.
Party gunman convicted
posted: 05/24/2013 4:49 a.m. Discuss
An England man was convicted of manslaughter Thursday night by a Pulaski County jury that rejected the more serious charge of first-degree murder for the May 2012 shooting that killed a Cabot man at an annual party held by the victim’s family in Scott.
Defendant to tell his side of ’12 slaying at Scott party
posted: 05/23/2013 4:55 a.m. Comment 1
An England man accused of murder will explain to a Pulaski County jury today how 37-year-old John Jacob Mosley was fatally wounded last year during a party thrown by Mosley’s family in Scott.
Former officer eligible for aid
posted: 05/21/2013 12:17 a.m. Discuss
Fired Little Rock police officer Josh Hastings was declared indigent at his second court appearance on a manslaughter charge on Monday, allowing him to apply for state financing for his defense.
25 years is sentence for NLR man in drunken hit-and-run crash
posted: 05/21/2013 12:15 a.m. Comment 1
A 28-year-old North Little Rock man who inflicted brain-damaging and paralyzing injuries on a motorcyclist in a September drunken-driving hit-and-run collision was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday.
Man admits inflicting burns, fractures on boy
posted: 05/18/2013 5:16 a.m. Comment 1
With a shrug of his shoulders Friday, 35-year-old Ronnie Lee Canada admitted to burning, fracturing bones and inflicting other injuries on a 2-year-old boy in Little Rock.
LR man admits to robbing murder victim, gets 40 years
posted: 05/17/2013 4:57 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock man linked to the December 2011 murder of a drug dealer behind the Central High School football field was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after admitting to participating in the robbery that led to the victim’s slaying.
Murder suspect fit to stand trial
posted: 05/14/2013 3:54 a.m. Discuss
A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Monday set a December trial date for a homeless man accused of killing a pregnant Little Rock woman and her unborn child after state doctors deemed the defendant fit to proceed after he had spent about three weeks in the State Hospital.
Appeal abandoned, killer dog euthanized
posted: 05/12/2013 4:09 a.m. Comments 6
Nova the pit bull, deemed vicious by Little Rock city officials, has been put down after its owner decided against challenging the constitutionality of the city’s pit-bull ordinance to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
