Circuit Court docket: Decide fingers down sentences to Columbia County residents | Public Records

Christopher Walker pleaded responsible in Circuit Court docket and been given 8 yrs in the Arkansas Section of Corrections, and suspended imposition of sentence for 10 years.

Walker’s criminal offense was two counts of domestic violence on February 18, 2021. He threatened and strike his sister with a shovel and knocked his 79-calendar year-outdated mother into a wall. These rates are the two battery in the next diploma.

Decide David Talley requested Walker after sentencing if prescription drugs had been a aspect of his previous and if so, did they add to this assault. Walker, 37, claimed he has been doing prescription drugs considering that the age of 19 and said the drugs did lead to the episode.

“There is drug counseling there and you have the reward of instruction, discovering a trade and other items apart from lying on a bunk (in prison),” Talley said. “Before your parole, I would like you to get the compound abuse software. This has to be voluntary. But if you never do it the prosecutor can ship you again. I am hoping you want to keep away from medications in the upcoming.”

Dexter Ray Harper gained five years in the ADC and a canceling of his SIS for the reason that he was found responsible of terroristic acts after being a recurring offender with four prior felonies.

Harper, 50, admitted he committed terroristic functions on September 29, 2020, when he threatened to get rid of Demetria Lewis by throwing rocks at her and her auto.

Jim Wesley, 21, in court for battery II and revocation, was sentenced to a few a long time in the ADC and his SIS was taken absent.

Arkansas Community Corrections Parole Officer Thomas Fenske explained he examined Wesley on June 21 and June 25 and that he was constructive for methamphetamine on both equally occasions. Fenske claimed Wesley said he got the drug on the road but would not disclose from whom he obtained it.

Fenske claimed when he asked him about a initially identify and a past title, Wesley reacted.

“When I mentioned his very last name, his physique language said the relaxation,” Fenske reported.

General public Defender Jessica Yarbrough explained Wesley told her there had been good reasons he was getting the drugs.

“He did admit he was self-medicating and he designed me knowledgeable of his mental well being issues,” Yarbrough stated. “He did point out he designed get hold of with his counselor and his mother assisted him with counseling.”

Wesley explained he was searching for help at the South Arkansas Regional Wellbeing Heart, and they had been creating guaranteed he was using his prescriptions fairly than taking self-treatment.

Sarah Pratt gained 5 years’ probation for chasing her boyfriend close to the entrance garden in Taylor with a knife. Her courtroom charges and expenses consist of a $25 cost for domestic violence.