Where a defendant argued that her plea counsel was ineffective for advising her to enter an Alford plea without considering her competence and for failing to investigate and raise a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity, the defendant ...

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A Missouri woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for killing a mentally disabled man, apparently as part of a complicated plot to divert attention from an unsolved homicide from several years earlier. Pamela Hupp, 60, of ...

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A Missouri woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for killing a mentally disabled man, apparently as part of a complicated plot to divert attention from an unsolved homicide from several years earlier. Pamela Hupp, 60, of ...

Tagged with: Alford plea life sentence Louis Gumpenberger murder Pamela Hupp St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar St. Louis

Steger v. State (MLW No. 68216/Case No. ED101703 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

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Simmons v. State (MLW No. 67719/Case No. WD77246 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.)

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Brooks v. U.S. (MLW No. 67165/Case No. 13-3640 – 4 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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A St. Louis County jury sided with the defendant in a personal injury lawsuit filed by an adult soccer league player whose nose was broken during a fight with an opponent.

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Lynn v. State (MLW No. 65601/Case No. ED99451 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

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Hemphill v. Pollina (MLW No. 64811/Case No. WD75110 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.)

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Scarborough v. State (MLW No. 63427/Case No. SD31159 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Francis, P.J.)

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Bott v. State (MLW No. 62989/Case No. SD30864 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Francis Jr., J.)

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