Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected a request that it reconsider its order that a state commission fund the defense of a man charged with killing a soldier.
The ruling Thursday comes five weeks after the Supreme Court ordered the Arkansas Public Defender Commission to pay for Abdulhakim Muhammad’s attorney.
Muhammad faces capital murder and other charges in the June 2009 shooting death of Pvt. William Long and the wounding of another soldier outside a recruiting center in Little Rock.
He told The Associated Press last year that he believes the shootings were justified because of U.S. military action in the Middle East.
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