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Plaintiff’s residential subdivision was subject to indentures that included a restriction that “only one residence shall be erected on each lot” and that other lot owners were entitled to a right of first refusal on a proposed sale. Defendant acquired ...

Tagged with: Indentures Residential Subdivision

Police shot and killed a man, whose grandmother filed a wrongful-death suit, claiming to be his next of kin. The man was survived by his parents, both of whom were incarcerated at the time. The man’s father wrote to the ...

Tagged with: Motion To Intervene wrongful death

Where plaintiffs in a medical-negligence case challenged the judgment against them arguing that the trial court erred by refusing to give their attorney extra time so that he could ask the insurance question after he forgot to ask it during ...

Tagged with: Extra Time Insurance Question voir dire

(1)Where a juvenile challenged a circuit court finding that he committed an act that if committed by an adult would have constituted the felony of making a terrorist threat in the second degree, and the juvenile turned 18 and was ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Juvenile Proceeding mootness

While working in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office, respondents helped a police detective with whom they were acquainted to cover up the detective’s assault of a suspect he believed had broken into his daughter’s vehicle. Respondents failed to report ...

Tagged with: Coverup of Police Assault Discipline

Where appellants sought to appeal a circuit court order overruling their motion for order revoking or in the alternative modifying and changing an interlocutory order appointing a receiver, the order was appealable pursuant to sections 515.665 and 512.020(2), and the ...

Tagged with: Appealability Denomination of Judgment Interlocutory Order

Where Kansas businesses, which were sued in Missouri by a man who was injured when he was electrocuted while working at an apartment complex in Kansas, sought a permanent writ of prohibition to prevent the trial court from exercising jurisdiction ...

Tagged with: jurisdiction personal injury

(1)Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case challenged his death sentence, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by sustaining the state’s motion to strike a prospective juror for cause because the juror’s ambiguous statements created uncertainty about ...

Tagged with: death penalty Photographic Evidence voir dire

Where a defendant who was convicted of first-degree assault and armed criminal action argued that the trial court erred in failing to submit a self-defense instruction, the judgment is reversed and remanded because substantial evidence supported the instruction even though ...

Tagged with: Contradictory Testimony Self Defense

Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty to charges including one count of first-degree murder, moved for post-conviction relief arguing that his counsel was ineffective and thus his plea was not knowing or voluntary, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant ...

Tagged with: Effectiveness of Counse Intellectual Disability Life Imprisonment

Where a mother, who was minimally involved in her son’s childhood and life, challenged the distribution of a majority of the proceeds from her son’s wrongful-death settlement to the father, the mother did not show that the trial court abused ...

Tagged with: Distribution Settlement Proceeds wrongful death