Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

Defendant was convicted of robbery, armed criminal action and felonious restraint. Defendant filed a pro se PCR motion. The motion court appointed a “public defender” to represent defendant and filed an amended PCR motion. The motion court denied the claims ...

Tagged with: Abandonment by Counsel Post-Conviction Relief

Defendant appealed from his conviction of first-degree murder and armed criminal action following defendant’s stabbing of his live-in girlfriend after the victim accused defendant of cheating on her. Where testimony about statements made by the victim’s mother when police arrived ...

Tagged with: confrontation clause First-Degree Murder

Defendant pleaded guilty, in accordance with a plea agreement, to two counts of child molestation and was sentenced to two concurrent 10-year sentences. Defendant unsuccessfully filed a motion for post-conviction relief, alleging that he received ineffective assistance of counsel when ...

Tagged with: child molestation ineffective assistance of counsel

Defendant appealed from the judgment entered against them in plaintiffs’ conversion action, which concerned the internet domain name of a radio station owned by plaintiffs. Following the unauthorized sale of the domain name, plaintiff Missouri Ozarks Radio Network filed suit ...

Tagged with: Conversion Action internet domain name

Defendant appealed from the judgment in favor of the attorney general for defendants’ violations of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act and from the award of “rescission” to the attorney general. The attorney general’s complaint alleged that defendants had sold a ...

Tagged with: Award of Rescission Missouri Merchandising Practices Act

Where the state challenged a pretrial order suppressing evidence seized in a warrantless traffic stop, the trial court erred in suppressing drugs seized from the defendant’s vehicle because the defendant effectively consented to the search during a valid traffic stop. ...

Tagged with: Consent Warrantless Search

Defendant appealed a second time from his conviction and sentence. Defendant argued that because the written judgment was corrected nunc pro tunc to conform to the oral pronouncement of defendant’s sentence at trial, he was entitled to file a second ...

Tagged with: Corrected Judgment Second Appeal

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for careless and imprudent driving after his semi-truck struck and killed the driver of a farming vehicle, arguing that the trial court should have excluded from evidence certain testimony from the state’s expert witness, ...

Tagged with: Careless Driving expert witness Plain Error Review

Defendants appealed from the denial of their claim to reform a warranty deed that granted plaintiffs, defendants’ neighbors, an egress/ingress easement. On appeal, defendants challenged the trial court’s application of the law and the weight of the evidence supporting the ...

Tagged with: Egress/Ingress Easement Weight of the Evidence

Defendant appealed from the denial of his adverse possession claim. Plaintiffs had purchased the disputed property and later sought to fence it off, finding no functional or visible border or fencing. Defendant disputed the property line and clouded the title ...

Tagged with: Adverse Possession Sufficiency Of Evidence

Defendant, who was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, appealed the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief, which alleged that trial counsel was ineffective for requesting the jury be instructed on lesser-included ...

Tagged with: Post-Conviction Relief Requesting Lesser-Included Offenses