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Associate Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u2019s award in a nursing home negligence case in 2013 \u2014 a ruling that led to Maggio\u2019s imprisonment and to federal bribery charges against former lobbyist Gilbert Baker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wood\u2019s testimony for the prosecution came near day\u2019s end at Baker\u2019s trial in U.S. District Court in Little Rock. She is to continue testifying Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wood\u2019s statement contradicts <\/span>defense attorney Annie Depper\u2019s assertion during opening statements<\/span><\/a> Monday that Maggio had \u201cstruggled\u201d with the 2013 ruling so much that he consulted with Wood, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox and a law clerk about the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

The prosecution contends Baker, a former state senator from Conway and former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, was the middleman in a plot to bribe Maggio, who had presided over the negligence lawsuit against a Greenbrier nursing home owned by Fort Smith businessman Michael Morton. Resident Martha Bull of Perryville died there at age 76 in April 2008. Baker, 64, is charged with bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015, Maggio pleaded guilty to taking a bribe in 2013 to lower a Faulkner County jury's $5.2 million judgment to $1 million in the lawsuit Bull\u2019s family filed against Morton\u2019s Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility is one of 37 nursing homes in Arkansas and Oklahoma owned by Morton, a wealthy campaign financier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her voice trembling at times, Wood recalled that she and Maggio had been colleagues but not \u201cpersonal friends\u201d and worked in the same courthouse annex when both of them were circuit judges in Faulkner County. She would later move up to the Arkansas Court of Appeals, then the Arkansas Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wood, who is seeking re-election, said she does not remember ever discussing the Bull case with Maggio.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than once in her testimony, Wood said, \u201cI apologize\u201d and noted she could not remember everything that happened so long ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

She did remember a car trip that she, Maggio and Troy Braswell, now a Faulkner County circuit judge, took together to Fort Smith on July 10, 2013, for a ceremony involving a sheriff. That was the same day Maggio slashed the $5.2 million judgment in the Bull case \u2014 a judicial action Wood indicated earlier is rare.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Harris asked Wood if Maggio talked during the trip about the July 8, 2013, hearing in his courtroom that led him to issue the order. During that hearing, Morton\u2019s attorneys asked Maggio to either order a new trial or lower the monetary award in the Bull family\u2019s lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not,\u201d Wood said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have any sort of recollection of that [negligence lawsuit trial] standing out,\u201d she testified. But she might have been aware it was going on, Wood added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier Tuesday, Morton was called as a witness. He testified that he had not even known there was a hearing in Maggio\u2019s court that July 8. On that same day, Morton had $228,000 in checks made out and sent to Baker.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn hindsight, it looks horrible,\u201d Morton said. He has previously described the timing as a \u201ccoincidence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The money, sent via FedEx, arrived at Baker\u2019s home the next day, and on July 10, 2013, Maggio cut the size of the jury\u2019s award.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FedEx package contained $30,000 in checks for 10 political action committees that Morton wanted to be directed to Maggio\u2019s 2014 campaign for the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Some but not all of it ended up going to Maggio\u2019s campaign. Also inside were checks totaling $48,000 for Wood\u2019s campaign and $50,000 for Arkansans for Lawsuit Reform, a nonprofit organization in which Baker was involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wood became irritated when Harris questioned her about texts she and Baker exchanged the day Baker got the package. The texts have been deleted, and Baker and Wood say they cannot remember their contents, according to the prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harris asked Wood if Baker was perhaps telling her in a text that Morton\u2019s money had arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly it was not,\u201d she replied.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wood said she was \u201cshocked\u201d when she realized Baker had changed the dates on the checks from July 2013 to late November 2013 to conform with state law on when judicial candidates can legally solicit and accept campaign donations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf he had told me about that at the time, I would have told him to return them,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harris kept pressing Wood about the texts, prompting her to say that she resented his \u201cimplication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The FedEx package from Morton to Baker also included $100,000 for the University of Central Arkansas, Baker\u2019s employer at the time. UCA returned the donation after learning of the controversy surrounding it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morton has not been charged with a crime and has denied wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Morton said he gave money to Maggio\u2019s campaign only because Baker asked him to do so and because his own lawyers had told him Maggio \u201cwas a good judge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no bribe,\u201d Morton testified.<\/span><\/p>\n

This reporting is courtesy of the<\/i>\u00a0Arkansas Nonprofit News Network<\/i><\/a>, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s award in a nursing home negligence case in 2013 \u2014 a ruling that led to Maggio\u2019s imprisonment and to federal bribery charges against former lobbyist Gilbert Baker. 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