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The State Appeals Court has denied the appeal of a Van Buren County man charged with raping his eleven-year-old daughter. Joel Ernest Blanton faces 212 years in prison after being convicted on seven counts of rape during the 2018 trial. Blanton also convicted on one count of aggravated sexual battery involving his ten-year-old daughter. Blanton appealed the verdict citing insufficient ... Read More »

A Putnam County man must continue to serve his three-year sentence in confinement after the State Court of Appeals denied his appeal for probation. Mark Alan Kirby pled guilty to aggravated assault, a class C felony, in a September, 2019 event. Kirby accidently stabbed his girlfriend after the two became engaged in an argument. The two had been using crystal ... Read More »