Attorney General Griffin Addresses Election-Related Charges Filed by His Office

Griffin: ‘This case, and the misdemeanor warrants we obtained, are about one thing: following the law’

Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement regarding warrants his office has obtained for Conrad Reynolds and Dustin Black on misdemeanor charges of violating Arkansas’s election laws:

“This case was referred to my office by the State Board of Election Commissioners after the board received it from a local election official. My career law enforcement officers conducted their investigation based solely on the facts, and it was done by the book. Charges were filed by Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeanna Sherrill, who was appointed as a special prosecutor by the circuit court in this case.

“Arkansas Code § 7-1-103 prohibits electioneering in the building or within 100 feet of the primary exterior entrance used by voters in which voting is taking place, or with persons standing in line to vote. That same statute also makes it unlawful for a person to enter or remain within the 100-foot area unless the person is entering or leaving the building for lawful purposes where voting is taking place.

“The evidence in this case includes a video of both men conducting exit polling approximately 30 feet from a polling site. This case, and the misdemeanor warrants we obtained, are about one thing: following the law. The subjects of our investigation were treated no differently than any subject of other investigations we have conducted.”

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About Attorney General Tim Griffin

Tim Griffin was sworn in as the 57th Attorney General of Arkansas on January 10, 2023, having previously served as the state’s 20th Lieutenant Governor from 2015-2023. From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District, where he served on the House Committee on Ways and Means, House Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Ethics and House Committee on the Judiciary while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority.

Griffin is currently an officer in the Arkansas Army National Guard and holds the rank of colonel. Griffin served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than 28 years. In 2005, Griffin was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq.

His previous assignments include serving as the Commander of the 2d Legal Operations Detachment in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and as a Senior Legislative Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. Griffin earned a master’s degree in strategic studies as a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Griffin also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush; Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Arkansas; Senior Investigative Counsel, Government Reform and Oversight Committee, U.S. House of Representatives; and Associate Independent Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel David M. Barrett, In re: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.

Griffin is a graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, and Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He attended graduate school at Oxford University. He is admitted to practice law in Arkansas (active) and Louisiana (inactive). Griffin lives in Little Rock with his wife, Elizabeth, a Camden native, and their three children.

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