CABOT, Ark. (KATV) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has overturned a gag order that had silenced public discussion in the widely followed case of Aaron Spencer, a Lonoke County father charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Michael Fosler in October 2024.

Spencer was arrested for shooting Fosler after he found him inside a truck with his missing 14-year-old daughter late at night.

In a strongly worded opinion issued Thursday, the state’s highest court granted Spencer’s petition for a writ of certiorari, rebuking the gag order imposed by Lonoke County Circuit Judge Barbara Elmore.

The justices concluded that the broad restriction on speech infringed on core First Amendment rights and lacked sufficient justification.

Justice Nicholas Bronni concurring with other justi

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