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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 sentence of the defendant, Marvin Arrell Stanton, accused of fatally shooting another man over a parking space. A Miller County jury found Stanton guilty in the 2015 shooting of 22-year-old Jesse James Hamilton. Witnesses said a fight began in the parking lot of a convenience store and gas station after Hamilton parked in the spot Stanton preferred. ....
(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 jury sentenced Marvin Stanton to life in prison last year for the 2015 murder of Jesse Hamilton following an altercation over a gas station parking spot. Prosecutors claimed Stanton, riding a motorcycle, initiated a verbal and physical altercation with Hamilton, which they say ended when Stanton pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot the 22-year-old victim to death. ....
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.” The trial was the third for Marvin Stanton, an Arkansas man who was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing another man following a fight over a parking spot at a gas station in 2015. The first conviction was reversed on direct appeal because of improper admission of character evidence. A mistrial was then declared in his second trial. ....
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 Judge Kirk Johnson. Stanton was convicted and sentenced to life for shooting Jesse Hamilton during an argument outside a Texarkana gas station. The conviction was reversed on a direct appeal and then a mistrial was declared in his second trial. He was convicted at a third trial, but the Supreme Court today ordered a fourth trial because of the prosecutor’s ....