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Three Cases, Three Evidence Failures — What Went Wrong in Spencer, Shirilla, and Kepner?
The Aaron Spencer murder prosecution was dismissed after a court found that law enforcement conduct, including the loss of a critical dashcam SD card, was "so egregious" that it constituted a due process violation. The court's order specifically cited "the appearance of a coverup." Spencer was the Republican nominee for Lonoke County sheriff, running against the incumbent whose department handled the evidence.The Mackenzie Shirilla double murder conviction was built entirely on circumstantial and physical evidence — a data recorder showing full accelerator input with zero braking at close to…
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