FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A former Arkansas state senator convicted in 2018 of corruption-related charges is pushing forward with a request for a new trial.
Attorney Lee D. Short of North Little Rock filed notice Wednesday that his client, former Sen. Jon Woods, will take his request for a new trial to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
The request for a retrial comes after claims that the FBI coerced former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson into giving incriminating information about Woods that should have been protected by attorney-client privilege.
