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These opinions were released by the Missouri Supreme Court.

These opinions were released by the Missouri Supreme Court.

These opinions were released by the Missouri Supreme Court.

These opinions were released by the Missouri Supreme Court.

Where a defendant, whose probation was revoked, challenged the judgment overruling her motion for post-conviction relief from sentences imposed in 2017 for felony stealing, the defendant was on probation and had not been sentenced at the time the court decided ...

Tagged with: Bazell probation sentencing

Where a defendant challenged the judgment overruling his motion for post-conviction relief, the trial court failed to comply with the mandate of the court in the direct appeal from his judgment of conviction, so there was no final judgment in ...

Tagged with: Finality Of Judgment Post-Conviction Motion Premature

Where a defendant scheduled for execution sought a writ of habeas corpus arguing that he was actually innocent and incompetent to be executed, the defendant failed to offer sufficient evidence to show actual innocence by a preponderance of the evidence ...

Tagged with: Actual Innocence Death Penalty Case Habeas Relief

Where an employee challenged the denial of worker’s compensation benefits for orthopedic injuries that she suffered when she tripped accidentally at a doctor’s office where she was being treated for respiratory symptoms from a work-related chemical exposure, the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Accidental Tripping Prevailing Factor Work Injury

Where appellant challenged his civil commitment as a sexually violent predator, the trial court’s reasonable restriction on a detailed inquiry into the age of the victims was not an abuse of discretion, the court did not abuse its discretion in ...

Tagged with: civil commitment sexually violent predator

Where a defendant, who was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murders of his grandparents when he was 19, challenged Section 565.020 as unconstitutional as applied to him, the court is ...

Tagged with: Life Imprisonment sentencing

Where a defendant sentenced to death in a first-degree murder case challenged the denial of post-conviction relief, the defendant’s trial counsel made reasonable strategic decisions, and there was no abandonment by post-conviction counsel, so the denial of relief is affirmed ...

Tagged with: Abandonment Death Sentence Post-Conviction Relief