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Arkansas: Sentencing Court Cannot Order Prison Treatment
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 37
The Arkansas Supreme Court has held that a sentencing court lacks authority to order a defendant to complete sex offender treatment in prison.In 2011, Chad Lee White was convicted of rape and second-degree battery for anally penetrating a neighbor's two-year-old son while babysitting him. The trial court imposed a ...
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