Echols v. State

| Appellant Bruce Allen Echols was convicted of four counts of aggravated robbery, each of which occurred during a bank robbery at First Security Bank in Benton on September 6, 2012. Mr. Echols was sentenced to four concurrent thirty-year prison terms, and he now appeals. 1

On appeal, Mr. Echols argues that his arrest was pretextual, not supported by probable cause, and therefore illegal. Mr. Echols contends that, because he was illegally arrested, the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress his custodial statements to the police, as well as physical evidence obtained pursuant to a…