15 January 2010 :

The Arkansas Supreme Court ordered that James Aaron Miller receive a new sentencing hearing. Miller was sentenced on April 4, 2008 (see) for killing his girlfriend Bridgette Barr, and her 2 young children, 5-year-old Sydney Barr and 2-year-old Garrett Barr. Justices unanimously upheld James Aaron Miller's murder convictions but ordered that he be resentenced, saying 2 witnesses should not have been allowed to recommend that the jury impose the death penalty during the original sentencing phase. "Family members of the victim may testify about the victim and the emotional impact of the victim's death on the family," justices said, but can't recommend sentences.