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Where a claimant challenged the reversal of an award of permanent total disability benefits against the Second Injury Fund, the decision is reversed and remanded with directions to reinstate the award because the compensable occupational disease occurred before January 1, ...

Tagged with: Occupational Disease Second Injury Fund

Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case argued that she received ineffective assistance of counsel in rejecting the state’s pre-trial plea offer for a 25-year sentence for second-degree murder and instead proceeding to trial, the motion court properly found ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief Prejudice

Where a defendant challenged her convictions for charges including first-degree murder, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing officers to testify about the meaning of slang terms used by the defendant such as “getting her wings” and ...

Tagged with: Deliberation First-Degree Murder Slang Terms

Where assessors challenged a trial court judgment affirming a State Tax Commission order establishing the value of two low-income housing properties for certain tax years, the commission’s choice and application of the income approach to valuing the properties was reasonable ...

Tagged with: Real Property Taxation Valuation Approach

Where a defendant argued that a trial court erred when it refused to sever resisting-arrest and gun charges from child-molestation and statutory rape charges, the sex offense charges provided the basis for the state to bring the other charges and ...

Tagged with: child molestation Severance

Where a defendant in a robbery and burglary case challenged the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief, the claim of prosecutorial misconduct was not cognizable in a Rule 29.15 proceeding, the findings that counsel was not ineffective and that ...

Tagged with: Post-Conviction Relief prosecutorial misconduct

Where a defendant challenged a denial of post-conviction relief, arguing ineffective assistance of counsel, the motion court did not clearly err, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. Shelby v. State (MLW No. 74756/Case No. SD36125 – 3 pages) ...

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Where appellant sought the return of escrow money after failing to close on a condominium purchase, bringing claims under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act and for fraudulent transfer, the judgment for the defendants is affirmed because the trial court did ...

Tagged with: Condominium Purchase Escrow Agreement MMPA

Plaintiff appealed from the summary judgment entered for defendants. Plaintiff had filed suit on behalf of his minor child for injuries the child suffered from a dog bite. The dog was kept on premises owned by defendants that they leased ...

Tagged with: dog bite Proof of Ownership

Defendants appealed from the adverse judgment entered against them in plaintiffs’ unlawful detainer action, in which plaintiffs alleged they were entitled to possession of farmland they had leased to defendants for defendants’ breach of the lease. Where the defendants surrendered ...

Tagged with: breach of lease Unlawful Detainer Action

Defendant appealed from the trial court’s judgment, which declared defendant’s insurance policy’s language ambiguous and ruled that the liability coverage on the four vehicles covered under the policy could be “stacked.” Where the policy expressly stated that the most the ...

Tagged with: Multi-Vehicle Policy Stacking of Coverage