The court heard arguments in the case of David Barnett, who stabbed to death his adoptive grandparents in their St. Louis County home in 1996. He was 19 at the time.

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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

Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 40 years for several serious drug-trafficking and firearms offenses. The firearms convictions were later vacated due to an intervening judicial decision, and defendant’s case was remanded for resentencing. The district court found a ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to life in prison. On appeal, defendant challenged the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. Where the district court sufficiently considered the statutory sentencing factors and did not rely on ...

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Where a defendant, who was sentenced to life without eligibility for parole for 50 years plus two life sentences for capital murder committed as a 16-year-old, sought habeas relief, State ex rel. Carr v. Wallace was applicable because the defendant ...

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Wright v. U.S. (MLW No. 72097/Case No. 17-3242 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, J.)

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Edwards v. Steele (MLW No. 71161/Case No. ED105946 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Clayton III, J.)

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U.S. v. St. Claire (MLW No. 69531/Case No. 15-3665 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

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Branch v. Cassady (MLW No. 67337/Case No. WD77788 – 25 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.)

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State v. Olivas (MLW No. 66440/Case No. WD75388 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)

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