A St. Charles officer’s decision to add a man to the sex offender registry based on dropped charges will not stand after the Missouri Supreme Court’s opinion, though the court disagreed with the case’s path to the high court.

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Where a registered sex offender challenged a guilty verdict on a charge of residing within 1,000 feet of a school, arguing that under the rule of lenity the distance between his home and the school was more than 1,000 feet ...

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Where a defendant challenged a judgment denying his “first amended motion to dismiss charges as unconstitutional,” the defendant was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to the charges, and his case remained pending in the circuit court, so the judgment ...

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A trial date was set this week for a convicted pedophile accused of raping and killing a 9-year-old Missouri girl in 1993. Earl Webster Cox, 62, was arrested in June, nearly 26 years after Angie Housman’s death. St. Charles County ...

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A trial date was set this week for a convicted pedophile accused of raping and killing a 9-year-old Missouri girl in 1993. Earl Webster Cox, 62, was arrested in June, nearly 26 years after Angie Housman’s death. St. Charles County ...

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Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender argued that retroactive application of the law violated the nondelegation doctrine, under prior case law there was no impermissible delegation, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment ...

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Where a defendant who failed to register with the sex-offender registry moved to dismiss the federal indictment, arguing that retroactive application of the law was unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the defendant’s claim of impermissible delegation, so the ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence for failing to register as a sex offender, any error in classifying the defendant as a tier III sex offender was not plain, and the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not ...

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The red flags were there. Earl Webster Cox was already a convicted child sex offender with a history of molesting little girls when 9-year-old Angie Housman was abducted moments after stepping off her school bus in St. Ann in November ...

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The red flags were there. Earl Webster Cox was already a convicted child sex offender with a history of molesting little girls when 9-year-old Angie Housman was abducted moments after stepping off her school bus in St. Ann in November ...

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A young man who admitted to a sex offense as a juvenile will not have to register as a sex offender when he turns 21, according to an interpretation of Missouri law by the Court of Appeals Eastern District.

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