A New Boston, Texas, man sentenced to two life sentences plus 20 years for child sex abuse at the end of a Bowie County jury trial last summer is getting a second shot at justice. The 6th District Court of Appeals headquartered in Texarkana tossed out the convictions and sentences assessed 61-year-old Donald Harrell Jr. last August in an opinion issued Thursday.
Mike Sandefur reminds the board and community members that he is the landlord of the Sulphur River Basin Authority office in Texarkana on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The president of the Sulphur River Basin Authority resigned from his governor-appointed board position Tuesday, a move that shocked area stakeholders in the fight for water rights to Wright Patman Lake.
A man who received a 60-year prison sentence last year from a Bowie County judge after falling on the floor during his plea hearing wants a second shot at justice. Gary Lamont Carson, 36, is serving time in a Texas prison for three counts of assault on a public servant and two counts of bail jumping and failure to appear.
Opened as Red River Ordinance Deport in 1941, RRAD was a boon to Texarkana and surrounding communities. Thousands of area residents have worked at RRAD and neighboring Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant over the years.