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Supreme Court in Hope to hear murder appeal Thursday, May 3, 2007 By Rob Moritz Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - The state Supreme Court was scheduled to convene on the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope campus today to hear the appeal of a double-murder conviction and life sentence given to an Oklahoma man in southwest Arkansas in 2005. The hearing will be just the fifth outside Little Rock for the high court since 2000, when voters approved Amendment 80 to the Arkansas Constitution. After oral arguments, the justices plan to meet with college students discuss the role of the court and the state's legal system, Supreme Court Clerk Leslie Steen said Wednesday. "They like to get the schools involved, they try to get as many students involved as they can and then after the oral arguments ... each justice will try to go to a separate class in the school," Steen said. Since Amendment 80 was approved, the high court has heard oral arguments on college campuses in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Jonesboro and Monticello, Steen said. The oral arguments are scheduled for 9 a.m. in Johnny Rapert Library Complex auditorium on the college campus. In 2005, Mickey David Thomas of Broken Bow, Okla., was convicted in Murfreesboro of two counts of capitol murder and was given two death sentences for the 2004 murder of 45-year-old Donna Marie Cary and 46-year-old Mona Lee Shelton. A delivery man discovered the bodies June 14, 2004, at De Queen Monument Co., which was owned by Shelton. |
