In addition to testimony jurors have heard over the past two weeks, they have a mountain of documents available for review: phone records, texts, records of donations and payments from various lobbying organizations, and a forensic analysis of those expenditures.
Testimony about a university already tarnished by public corruption and an illegal but not uncommon campaign finance tactic dominated proceedings Tuesday in the bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker. Along the way, Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall…
A nursing home magnate, one of Arkansas’s highest-ranking jurists and a former judge in shackles were among witnesses in the first week of the federal bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker. Prosecutors sought to weave an intricate tale of…
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood testified Tuesday that she never talked with former Circuit Judge Michael Maggio about his decision to alter a jury’s award in a nursing home negligence case in 2013 — a ruling that led to…
The long-awaited bribery trial of former state Sen. Gilbert Baker, a former Republican lobbyist from Conway, began Monday with news that a juror had contracted the coronavirus. The unidentified juror had been present for jury selection Friday and contacted the…
In November 2019, two chemistry professors at Henderson State University were arrested for allegedly producing methamphetamine on campus. Documents suggest the trouble may have started much earlier.
An Arkansas Supreme Court justice and a former U.S. attorney are among potential witnesses in the federal bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker of Conway, who once served as the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party and a state…
Federal prosecutors have agreed not to charge certain witnesses who testify against former lobbyist Gilbert Baker in his bribery and wire fraud trial starting next month, a federal judge has disclosed. U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. did not…
A federal court has ended any chance that a former chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas can avoid a bribery trial, unless he reaches a plea agreement first. Chief Judge D. Price Marshall Jr., in a ruling Tuesday in…
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