Jasper County Division III Judge David Mouton has taken over the Craig Smith stalking/child pornography case as of late Thursday.
After Smith, 52, a former Carl Junction R-1 choir teacher, waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial, his attorney, Jonathan Pierce, Neosho, filed a motion to have the case removed from Judge Joseph Hensley. At that point, it was assigned to Judge Dean Dankelson.
On Thursday, Assistant Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney Kurtis Droppa filed a motion for change of judge and Mouton was assigned.
With the judge merry-go-round appearing to have run its course, Smith's trial court arraignment has been moved from March 6 to 9 a.m. April 1 in Joplin.
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Let's keep trying to find a Judge that will give us some leniency.
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