Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case argued that she received ineffective assistance of counsel in rejecting the state’s pre-trial plea offer for a 25-year sentence for second-degree murder and instead proceeding to trial, the motion court properly found ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief Prejudice

Where a defendant in an unlawful-use-of-a-weapon case challenged his conviction, the trial court erred by allowing the state during voir dire to present the facts of the case in explicit detail and by allowing the state to ask bias-injecting questions, ...

Tagged with: Prejudice voir dire

Where a jury found a defendant guilty of assault on a law enforcement officer in the first degree, the state conceded that the trial court erred in denying the request to instruct down to the nested, lesser-included offense, and the ...

Tagged with: Lesser-Included Offense Prejudice

On a late May afternoon, the Bigtboys soccer team played its first match, a friendly game on a flood-lit neighborhood pitch bordered by chain-link fencing. With only four months of weekly training in the bag, the Bigtboys lost 9-1 to ...

Tagged with: Brazil game match Prejudice soccer team transgender

On a late May afternoon, the Bigtboys soccer team played its first match, a friendly game on a flood-lit neighborhood pitch bordered by chain-link fencing. With only four months of weekly training in the bag, the Bigtboys lost 9-1 to ...

Tagged with: Brazil game match Prejudice soccer team transgender

  Defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery pursuant in exchange for a suspended sentence and supervised probation. When defendant failed to complete a court-ordered detention sentence program after he violated probation, the court imposed the original sentence. Defendant ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law ineffective assistance of counsel Post-Conviction Relief Prejudice

Where a defendant challenged his convictions, which included statutory rape and sodomy, claiming a violation of his right to a speedy trial, the judgment is affirmed because the presumption of prejudice due to the length of the delay was attenuated ...

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Harrison v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (MLW No. 71428/Case No. ED105516 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Gaertner Jr., J.)

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State v. McIntosh (MLW No. 71420/Case No. WD79709 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Welsh, J.)

Tagged with: Closing Argument Criminal Law Prejudice Premature Finding Of Guilt

State v. Lewis (MLW No. 71235/Case No. SD34485 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Prejudice speedy trial

Pate v. State (MLW No. 71137/Case No. SD34672 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Sheffield, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief Prejudice