Tuesday, May 29, 2012
SEARCY — A legal battle over a $1 million lottery ticket has been assigned to another Arkansas judge after the previous one stepped down from the case.
In a court document filed Tuesday, an administrative circuit judge says the case is now assigned to Judge Craig Hannah.
Circuit Judge Thomas Hughes recused from the case last week after attorneys for a woman who plucked the ticket out of the trash and claimed the jackpot said he was biased.
Hughes ruled earlier this month that the prize money belongs to another woman who says she threw the ticket away after an electronic scanner told her it wasn’t a winner.
Hughes ordered a new trial in the case last week and said he wouldn’t preside over it.
Linda Burton Redlab says...
I don't believe that the woman who threw the ticket away ever had possession of the winning ticket and is trying to cash in on a ticket that was not hers. The woman who took the ticket out of the trash, had possession of it and cashed it in is the one who should keep the money. It is really weird how Arkansas is having so many problems in so many areas with the lottery.
Posted 29 May 2012, 9:32 p.m. Suggest removal