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What Happens When the Man Lonoke County Charged With Murder Becomes Their Sheriff?
Lonoke County charged Aaron Spencer with second-degree murder. A judge threw it out. And now Spencer is on track to run the department that investigated him.He won the Republican primary in March with 53.5 percent, beating incumbent Sheriff John Staley — the man whose office made the arrest — and a third candidate outright. No runoff. Lonoke County is deep red. Democrat Brian Mitchell Sr. faces steep odds in November.What makes this unprecedented isn’t the politics. It’s the proximity. Spencer will inherit the agency Judge Wilson just described in a 19-page order documenting eleven…
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