The Commercial Appeal

Fogleman, prosecutor in Ark. deaths, runs for judge

Date: March 25, 1994 Section: Business Page: B7 Edition: Final

John N. Fogleman, the Crittenden County deputy prosecutor who recently won convictions in the West Memphis triple-murder case, filed to run for Circuit judge in the six-county Second Judicial District on Thursday. Mike Walden, a Craighead County deputy prosecutor since 1976, and Chet Dunlap, a Poinsett County lawyer, also are seeking the position from which Circuit Judge Gerald Pearson is retiring.
Fogleman, the city attorney in Marion and a Marion Public Schools board member, is a member of the West Memphis firm of Hale, Fogleman and Rogers. He has been a deputy prosecutor since 1983.

Walden, a member of the Jonesboro firm of Henry, Walden and Halsey, has been a deputy prosecutor in Craighead County since 1976.

Dunlap, whose practice includes criminal defense work, has been a lawyer in Trumann for 10 years and worked briefly as a deputy prosecutor in northwest Arkansas after law school.
The Second Judicial District includes Clay, Greene, Craighead, Poinsett, Mississippi and Crittenden counties.