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Senate Judiciary panel approves bill to codify postponement-of-judgment practice in district courts
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 244, which clarifies how courts should record postponements of judgment and limits when clerks must enter dispositions into ACIC to avoid mistaken reporting of convictions.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed Senate Bill 244 during its meeting (date not specified), a measure to place into statute an existing district-court practice allowing postponement of judgment in traffic and criminal cases and to clarify how clerks should report those dispositions to the Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC).
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Joshua Bryant (Senate District 32), told the committee the measure is intended to “establish in statute what is already done in…
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