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Criminal Law: Murder-Sufficiency of Evidence
Defendant appealed from his conviction for murder and related offenses. On appeal, defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence, argued that the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing him to life without parole where he presented evidence of his underdeveloped mental state and argued that he was entitled to a new trial due to juror […]
Criminal Law: Murder-Habeas Relief-Juvenile Offender
Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s denial of plaintiff’s application for habeas relief after the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed plaintiff’s sentence for three murders plaintiff committed while he was a juvenile but old enough to be tried as an adult, for which plaintiff received a sentence of at least 90 years. Where the cumulative effect […]
Criminal Law: Murder-Newly Discovered Exculpatory Evidence
Defendant appealed from the denial of the circuit attorney’s motion for a new trial, after an investigation into defendant’s 1995 murder conviction uncovered new evidence that allegedly demonstrated defendant’s innocence. The trial court concluded that it lacked authority to consider a motion for new trial because the state could not file such a motion and […]
Criminal Law: Murder-Post-Conviction Relief
Defendant was found guilty of murder and related offenses and sentenced to death. Defendant’s conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal. Defendant then moved for post-conviction relief, asserting ineffective assistance of trial and direct appellate counsel and arguing that the trial judge should have recused herself because she was the attorney of record in […]
2011 murder of eastern Missouri woman to get new look
The 2011 murder of an eastern Missouri woman is getting new scrutiny. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Andy Binder last week confirmed an investigation by the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis in the death of Betsy Faria. It is the latest development in a string of events that have seen Faria’s husband convicted […]
2011 murder of eastern Missouri woman to get new look
The 2011 murder of an eastern Missouri woman is getting new scrutiny. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Andy Binder last week confirmed an investigation by the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis in the death of Betsy Faria. It is the latest development in a string of events that have seen Faria’s husband convicted […]
Woman gets life term in death of mentally disabled man
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 the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, entered an Alford plea in June on a first-degree […]
Woman gets life term in death of mentally disabled man
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 the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, entered an Alford plea in June on a first-degree […]
Criminal Law: Murder-Death Sentence-“Mentally Retarded” Exception
Defendant appealed from the judgment of sentence of death imposed following his conviction for the murder of a fellow inmate at the mental health facility where they were both incarcerated. On appeal, defendant argued that his mental retardation or intellectual deficiencies rendered him ineligible for the death penalty. Where defendant lacked evidence of the age […]
Kansas City woman lives for best friend murdered by father
India Woods sat in the Kansas City courtroom and stoically listened to the gruesome details of the last moments of her best friend’s life. Lawyers described how 18-year-old Daizsa Bausby was murdered and left cut and bruised, partially clothed and sprawled across the bed in a seedy south Kansas City motel room. Her friend had […]
Kansas City woman lives for best friend murdered by father
India Woods sat in the Kansas City courtroom and stoically listened to the gruesome details of the last moments of her best friend’s life. Lawyers described how 18-year-old Daizsa Bausby was murdered and left cut and bruised, partially clothed and sprawled across the bed in a seedy south Kansas City motel room. Her friend had […]
Police data: Violent crime getting deadlier in St. Louis
Violent crime in St. Louis has become deadlier in the past decade or so and the use of guns is on the rise, according to an analysis of police data. From 2015 to 2016, 94 percent of homicides in St. Louis involved a gun, as opposed to 78 percent in 2004, according to a recent […]
Latest Opinion Digests
- Immigration: Asylum-Withholding of Removal-Appellate Jurisdiction
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- Criminal Law: Child Abuse-Sufficiency Of Evidence-Closing Argument
- Civil Rights: Religious Freedom-RLUIPA-Res Judicata
- Civil Practice: Res Judicata-Stop Work Order
- Immigration: Drug Conviction-Removability-Overbreadth of State Offense
- Civil Practice: Asset Forfeiture-Sanctions
- Civil Rights: Due Process-Failure to State Claim
- Probate : Revocable Trust – Amendment – Reformation
- Employer – Employee : Unpaid Commissions – At-Will Status
- Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Effectiveness Of Counsel – Conflict Of Interest
- Appellate Practice : Jurisdiction – Final Judgment
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