U.S. District Judge Brian Miller denied former Faulkner County Circuit Judge Michael Maggio’s motion to dismiss the charges against him in a short, two-sentence statement on July 24.
Gilbert Baker, the Faulkner County Republican who represented District 30 in the Arkansas Senate from 2001 through 2012, expressed relief Monday after Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. granted a motion to dismiss bribery and wire fraud charges against him contained in a 2019 indictment.
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Prosecutors in the federal bribery and wire fraud trial of former state senator and Republican Party chairman Gilbert Baker have asked the judge overseeing the trial to clarify several instructions to the jury pool in hopes of securing a conviction the second time around.