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Byron Christopher Case is an American writer and poet imprisoned in Missouri since 2001 for first-degree murder. Case has maintained his innocence and his trial was the subject of the 2010 book The Skeptical Juror and the Trial of Byron Case.
Duren was indicted in 1975 for first-degree murder and first-degree robbery. In a pretrial motion to quash his jury panel, and again in a post-conviction motion for a new trial, he claimed that his right to trial by a jury chosen from a fair cross section of his community was denied by provisions of Missouri law granting women who so request an automatic exemption from jury service.
Civil rights advocates, world leaders, and, in a rare turn of events, a number of former jurors have come out against the planned Tuesday execution of Michael Tisius, a Missouri man who was ...
On December 23, 2006, a young couple living in a neighbourhood in New Bloomfield, Missouri, were brutally murdered by a relative inside their house. [2] [3]On that day itself, both Sarah and Benjamin Bonnie, aged 25 and 28 respectively, received a call from Sarah's cousin, 34-year-old Brian Joseph Dorsey, who owed money to drug dealers looking for him and he wanted to borrow money from Sarah.
(Reuters) -A man who fatally shot two Missouri jail guards in 2000 was executed on Tuesday after the governor and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, even though several jurors in the ...
The Supreme Court of Missouri is the highest court in the state of Missouri. It was established in 1820 and is located at 207 West High Street in Jefferson City , Missouri. Missouri voters have approved changes in the state's constitution to give the Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction – the sole legal power to hear – over five types of ...
Keith Larner, who was the prosecutor on Marcellus Williams’ murder case in St. Louis County, said he struck a potential juror because he was a young Black man with glasses.
The Missouri Constitution provides for the Circuit Courts in Article V, Judicial Department. [1]Section 14: Circuit courts – jurisdiction – sessions. (a) The circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction over all cases and matters, civil and criminal.