Where a defendant challenged his first-degree rape conviction and the trial court’s restriction of his cross-examination of a witness, the evidence was sufficient to show that the victim was incapacitated at the time of sexual intercourse to support the conviction, ...

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More than two  years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of ...

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More than two  years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of ...

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Robert E. Nelson left prison on Wednesday after a Jackson County circuit judge threw out his nearly 30-year-old conviction.

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State v. Smoot (MLW No. 63150/Case No. ED95499 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Romines, J.)

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State v. Dickson (MLW No. 61983/Case No. SD30159 – 22 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)

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State v. French (MLW No. 60485/Case No. ED92992 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Cohen, J.) (1) Where a defendant was charged with 14 counts, including forcible rape, sodomy  and kidnapping, joinder of the offenses, which involved ...

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A hotel patron who was forced into her room and raped has settled her case against the hotel for $1 million. The confidential parties agreed to the settlement before suit was filed. “There are inexpensive means to monitor hallways and ...

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The Constitution doesn’t guarantee access to DNA evidence for accused and convicted criminals, a divided U.S. Supreme Court said, ruling against a convicted Alaska rapist who sought to test DNA samples from a condom. The justices, voting 5-4, overturned a ...

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Coming next month to a movie screen near you is a tear-jerker of a story about little Scott Swimm. Swimm, 7, was skiing down a trail at Colorado’s Beaver Creek Ski Resort in 2007 when he ran into 60-year-old David ...

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The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday that a DNA test ordered by the Missouri Supreme Court last year has confirmed the convicted man’s guilt. Huntley Ruff was convicted of raping a guest at the Phillips House Hotel in Kansas ...

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