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One psychologist says 20-year-old Tahmarcus Deshon Stewart is sane. A second says the North Little Rock murder suspect is not. Called on to decide the question of whether Stewart is mentally competent to stand trial, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cathi Compton said she'll make her ruling in the coming days.
A 20-year-old North Little Rock man has accepted a 30-year sentence for killing another man in a dispute over a dog.
A 46-year-old parolee has accepted a 20-year no-parole prison sentence for the slaying of an acquaintance at a Little Rock motel.
A 34-year-old Iowa man, already a convicted killer, was ordered on Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in a 2018 fatal home-invasion robbery in Little Rock, linked to the killing of 23-year-old Devon Howard by only a few drops of blood.
Three years after one Pulaski County circuit judge predicted a bleak future for 17-year-old capital murder suspect Malik Raheem Williams, a second judge has seen the potential for rehabilitation in the Little Rock teen, ordering that he be tried in juvenile court.