Radford v. State

In 2016, a Ouachita County jury convicted Tommy Lee Radford on two counts of threatening a judicial officer and one count of terroristic threatening. Radford challenges the sufficiency of the State's evidence against him. He also argues that his constitutional right to a speedy trial was violated. None of Radford's arguments are preserved for review, so we must affirm his conviction without addressing the merit of his points. Although he did not challenge the length of his sentence (95 years) in this appeal, it is illegal on its face. The problem, in a nutshell, is that the sentence is too…