A handwritten motion by the man charged in the slaying of an Arkansas television anchorwoman from South Carolina will be the focus of a court hearing. The motion by Curtis Lavelle Vance asks Judge Chris Piazza to relieve his team of state-provided public defenders. Vance claims his defense lawyers “already criminally and conspiratorially” crippled his defense by withholding material from him.

The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman from South Carolina will appear in court and could discuss why he refused to take part in a mental competency exam.

The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman from South Carolina says he no longer trusts his defense team. Curtis Lavelle Vance said in court Tuesday that prosecutors had evidence that he had not seen and that his lawyers would not talk to him about. Vance told the judge “you all got the whole world thinking I did this.“

A judge has denied several requests by defense lawyers for a man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman from South Carolina. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza said Tuesday that Curtis Lavelle Vance does not need a court order banning police from talking to him without attorneys or protecting him from jailhouse informants.

A makeshift memorial of flowers, candles and teddy bears lies near a tree outside the Arkansas home where a TV anchorwoman was found brutally beaten last Monday. At the same time, tributes are pouring into the Web site of the Little Rock station where her colleagues are mourning her death. Anne Pressly, a 26-year-old anchor for KATV, died Saturday night in a hospital.