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Criminal Law: Post-Conviction Relief – Effectiveness Of Counsel – Death Sentence
Baumruk v. State (MLW No. 63542/Case No. SC91564 – 34 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Fischer, J.; Teitelman, C.J., Russell, Breckenridge, Stith and Price, JJ., and Mesle, Sp. J., concur. Draper, J., not participating)
Criminal Law: Death Sentence – Vacated Convictions -Invalid Sentencing Factors
State v. Bowman (MLW No. 62068/Case No. SC90618 – 38 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J.; Price, C.J., Russell, Breckenridge, Fischer and Stith, JJ., concur; Wolff, J., concurs in part and dissents in part in separate opinion filed; Stith, J., concurs in opinion of Wolff, J.)
Convicted sniper Muhammad rejected by U.S. high court
Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to stop his execution, scheduled for today in Virginia, for one of 10 killings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., […]
Lawyer seeks life sentence for client
The lawyer for a Jefferson County man, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly DeSoto couple, asked the Missouri Supreme Court to resentence him to life in prison […]
Convicted killer seeks to commute death sentence to life in prison
The lawyer for a Jefferson County man, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly DeSoto couple, asked the Missouri Supreme Court to resentence him to life in prison […]
Supreme Court upholds death sentence
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of a man found guilty of killing a woman and her three children in 2004. On Dec. 3, 2004, police found the bodies […]
Jury calls for death sentence for Bowman
A jury that took about 15 hours to decide Gregory Bowman was guilty of killing a teenage girl 30 years ago has now called for his execution. A St. Louis […]
Baumruk death sentence upheld
The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously affirmed the death penalty for Kenneth Baumruk for his 1992 rampage in a St. Louis County courtroom where he shot and killed his wife […]
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