Bertrand v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant Eilert Bertrand appeals from his conviction for capital murder and from his sentence of life imprisonment without parole. His sole point on appeal is that the circuit court erred in allowing the prosecutor to read an absent witness’s prior sworn testimony from a suppression hearing into the record. We affirm the judgment of conviction.

The facts are these. On the evening of June 26, 2004, the victim, Antonio Alford, was sitting in the driver’s seat in his car in the parking lot of the Woodbridge Apartments on John Barrow Road in Little Rock. According to…