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Removing Judge Welch because they didn't like his tone smacks of ego. Preventing lawyers from carrying guns in the Justice Building drips with hypocrisy.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Karen Whatley sentenced a Ward man to 24 years in prison for sexually abusing a transgender boy, telling the 55-year-old defendant on Thursday that she feared he would commit more sex crimes if he were not behind bars.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Karen Whatley sentenced a Ward man to 24 years in prison for sexually abusing a transgender boy, telling the 55-year-old defendant on Thursday that she feared he would commit more sex crimes if he were not behind bars.
The Arkansas Public Defender Commission has been authorized by the Legislative Council to create six new positions in the 6th Judicial District with a total projected cost of more than $760,000. The action is the result of changes in the district s administrative plan approved by the Arkansas Supreme Court under which an additional circuit judge will begin hearing criminal cases in Pulaski County, starting next year.