... for removal from the bench over the past year. The panel has already recommended that Phillips County Circuit Judge L.T. Simes be removed from the bench over accusations that he practiced law while serving as a judge. The state Supreme Court ...

... whose body was found abandoned in a camper-trailer is to undergo mental examinations. Cross County Circuit Judge L.T. Simes granted a request Monday from Jason Hann's lawyer that Hann be evaluated at the State Hospital in Little Rock. The ...

... a 17-year-old Lonoke County girl along a road and then sexually assaulting and robbing her. Circuit Court Judge L.T. Simes II, who sentenced Burmingham in the Lonoke County case, set the September trial date in a scheduling order filed this ...

... Troop C headquarters at Jonesboro, lawyer Bill Bristow of Jonesboro testified at a hearing Friday before Circuit Judge L.T. Simes II. Bristow is not the defense lawyer for Robbie Dale Tubbs, 39, of Weiner, charged with capital murder in the 1991 ...

... important issues that the state wants us to address, I was glad to see us start off with a spirit of unity," said Sen. L.T. Simes, D-Helena, one of 16 new senators sworn in Monday. Sen. Sharon Trusty, R-Russellville, said she appreciated ...

... testing DNA samples allowed a breakthrough in the case last year and Tubbs was arrested. On March 29, Circuit Judge L.T. Simes ruled that the strand of hair could be used as evidence against Tubbs. Investigators said they were helped in the case ...

... autopsy. The hair from Tubbs' car sat in a Crime Lab file in Little Rock. Long accepted the blame. Circuit Judge L.T. Simes III gave the prosecutor two months to get the right hair tested. A lab report back this week said technicians couldn ...