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Apr 8, 2019
State Supreme Court waits on judicially imposed death sentence
The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a new penalty phase for a former Dent County sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, leaving for another day whether a judge was right to have given him the death penalty. Marvin Rice was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Annette Durham, and her boyfriend, Steven Strotkamp, in a […]
Jul 2, 2018
CLAIMS of INNOCENCE
In the past 10 years, two attorneys at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner — Charles Weiss and Stephen Snodgrass — have won the exoneration of three different Missouri inmates serving sentences for murders they did not commit.
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