A judge says he will not transfer a murder suspect’s case to juvenile court because of the “aggressive and violent” nature of the crimes that the 19-year-old is accused of committing.
Faulkner County Circuit Judge Troy Braswell on Wednesday refused to move Hunter Drexler’s capital murder case. Drexler is charged as an adult in the 2015 shooting deaths of Robert and Patricia Cogdell in west Conway. He was 17 at the time of their deaths.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported defense attorney Patrick Benca plans to appeal.
Two are in prison after plea bargains, 16-year-old Justin Staton and 18-year-old Connor Atchley. The Cogdells raised Staton as their grandson and had been his legal guardians since 2010, even though DNA testing in 2008 showed that they were not genetically related.
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