High court upholds murder conviction, sentence
The Arkansas News Bureau of the Stephens Media Group reported Thursday that the state's high court rejected several arguments in upholding the December 2009 conviction of 35-year-old Kevin Ray Pearcy. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Pearcy was arrested Aug. 11, 2008, after a police officer saw him walking in and out of the yards of homes. Police said that, without being questioned, he told the officer he had killed a man.
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