Court affirms conviction in TV anchorwoman’s murder (Anne Pressly)

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Source: Arkansas News

LITTLE ROCK — The man convicted in the brutal rape and murder of a Little Rock television anchorwoman lost his appeal today before the Arkansas Supreme Court.

The state’s highest court upheld the conviction of Curtis Lavell Vance in the death of Anne Pressly, who hosted the program “Daybreak” on ABC affiliate KATV. The 26-year-old Pressly was attacked in her Little Rock home in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, 2008, and died in a hospital five days later without regaining consciousness.

Vance was convicted of capital murder, residential burglary, theft of property and rape and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, though prosecutors had sought the death penalty.

On appeal, Vance, now 30, argued that a saliva sample he gave to police should not have been admitted at his trial because he gave it after police illegally seized him from his Marianna residence and took him to the Marianna police station without arresting him.

Read more: http://arkansasnews.com/2011/06/02/court-affirms-conviction-in-tv-anchorwomans-murder/

[Taverner]

1. I remember when this happened...tragic

I don't wish him death but I don't wish him freedom, ever.

[RebelOne]

2. I remember this case. And I am not against the death penalty,

He deserves it. That was a horrible crime. That poor woman!!!

[TacticalPeek]

3. That's a good thing.

FOAD, MF.