Eddie Scott Seaton, 55, is charged in a federal indictment with one count each of receipt of child pornography, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and possession of child pornography, which carries a maximum 10 year prison term.
The trial of a former Little Rock police officer on federal child pornography charges got underway Monday with jury selection and preliminary jury instructions to be followed this morning with opening statements, after which government prosecutors will begin presenting the government s evidence.
Jury selection begins today in the trial of a former Little Rock police officer who was indicted in 2020 after federal investigators discovered more than 60,000 images of child pornography and child erotica on a home computer he owned.
A Little Rock man sentenced to serve a total of 29 years and 2 months in federal prison appeared before the judge who sentenced him Monday in an attempt to get his former attorney to turn over records he said are needed for a motion he is preparing in an effort to get his conviction overturned.
A Little Rock man convicted by a jury of supplying a lethal dose of fentanyl to a Fayetteville woman was ordered to serve 30 years in federal prison after an emotional sentencing hearing Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson.