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Jury selection to begin in '02 double slaying

Posted: January 10, 2013 - 8:29am
Richard Conte  FCSO
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Richard Conte

Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the capital murder trial of a former doctor charged in a decade-old double slaying in central Arkansas.

Jury selection is to start Thursday in Conway in the capital murder trial of 63-year-old Richard Conte.

Conte was charged with two counts of capital murder in 2011 in the 2002 shooting deaths of 49-year-old Carter Elliott and 25-year-old Timothy Wayne Robertson in Conway.

Conte has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The charges were filed shortly before Conte was released from a Nevada prison where he served a sentence for kidnapping his ex-wife, Lark Gathright-Elliott — who was once married to Carter Elliott.

Prosecutor Cody Hiland is not seeking the death penalty in the case and Conte faces life in prison without parole if convicted.

 

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