Marvin Stanton News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Arkansas court reverses murder conviction of Texarkana man, orders 4th trial The unanimous ruling on Thursday, Dec. 17 also overturned the life sentence of the defendant, Marvin Arrell Stanton. Marvin Stanton Published: 1:34 PM CST December 18, 2020 Updated: 1:39 PM CST December 18, 2020 LITTLE ROCK, Ark — The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction of a Texarkana man after finding that jurors were improperly exposed to political campaigning by the case’s lead prosecutor.  The unanimous ruling on Thursday, Dec. 17 also overturned the life ...

(CN) — An Arkansas man will be tried a fourth time for murder after the state’s high court on Thursday overturned his latest conviction because of the prosecutor’s campaign activities during trial, which it found to be an “abuse and exploitation of the judicial system.” “This kind of conduct has no place in the administration of justice and should not have been permitted,” Justice Shawn Womack wrote in the ruling. “The circuit court should have dealt promptly with the prosecutor’s improper campaigning in the courthouse during trial.” (Courthouse News photo/Kelsey Jukam) A ...

State supreme court calls prosecutor’s courthouse campaigning an ‘exploitation of the judicial system’   Image from Shutterstock.com. The Arkansas Supreme Court overturned a man's murder conviction Thursday after finding that the prosecutor improperly campaigned in the courthouse during the trial. In the Dec. 17 ruling, Associate Justice Shawn Womack wrote that conduct by Stephanie Potter Barrett, the Miller County prosecuting attorney who won an open seat in March on the Arkansas Court of Appeals, “has no place in the administration of justice and should not have been permitted.” ...

Supreme Court again reverses murder conviction, this time for courthouse campaigning by the prosecutor December 17, 202011:59 am REBUKED: Prosecutor Stephanie Barrett and Circuit Judge Kirk Johnson were blistered in a Supreme Court ruling today. Photo from her Facebook page. Electioneering by the Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Stephanie Barrett has resulted in the reversal of the third trial of a first-degree murder charge against Marvin Stanton. Advertisement The court also sent a reproof to judges who’ve politicked with jury pools or allowed it, as happened in this case heard by J...