Recent stories by John Lynch
Affidavits in SAU killing recount pot-deal ambush
Probable cause affidavits supporting the arrest of four men in connection to an Aug. 11 homicide at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia describe a prearranged drug sale in a campus parking lot th...
November 25, 2020
Judge denies bail for North Little Rock suspect in 2 Sherwood killings
A 34-year-old North Little Rock man arrested with a dead man's credit cards and named by authorities as the Sherwood victim's killer must remain jailed until trial, a Pulaski County circuit judge rule...
November 22, 2020
Judge denies bail for suspect in Sherwood killings
LITTLE ROCK -- A 34-year-old North Little Rock man arrested with a dead man's credit cards and named by authorities as the Sherwood victim's killer must remain jailed until trial, a Pulaski County cir...
November 22, 2020
Justices to weigh case on Griffen
The Arkansas Supreme Court is poised to act on accusations by the attorney general that Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen has flouted the court's authority by retaining jurisdiction over a ...
November 15, 2020
Driver's intoxication records barred from trial, judge rules
Medical records that show a Little Rock man accused of killing a friend in a drunken-driving crash had a blood-alcohol level 50% above the legal limit were wrongfully obtained by police and cannot be ...
November 12, 2020
Judge rejects bail after told there's a video of slaying
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims on Monday rejected bail for a capital-murder defendant after hearing that authorities have surveillance video of the May slaying.
Jeremy Christopher Parks, 22,...
November 12, 2020
Capital-murder cases placed with circuit judge raise questions
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen is headed toward another conflict over the death penalty with the Arkansas Supreme Court at the behest of Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.
The high court...
November 10, 2020
Killer of girl, 2 women given 100 years in deal
Facing a possible death sentence, a 43-year-old Pine Bluff parolee who killed two women and a girl in a midday rampage through the victims' Little Rock home has accepted a 100-year prison sentence.
S...
November 7, 2020
Man gets 15 years in shooting
LITTLE ROCK — A 23-year-old parolee accused of shooting up a Little Rock house full of children in the middle of the night and wounding a woman has accepted a 15-year prison sentence.
Sentencing pape...
November 7, 2020
Little Rock man draws 15 years in shooting
A 23-year-old parolee accused of shooting up a Little Rock house full of children in the middle of the night and wounding a woman has accepted a 15-year prison sentence.
Sentencing papers filed Monda...
November 5, 2020