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Court of Appeals orders reconstruction of Batson challenge

It wasn’t the evidence, his claims of ineffective counsel, nor the appearance of judicial bias — as the Missouri Supreme Court thrice considered — that brought a halt to defendant Herbert Smulls’ death sentence. Rather, it was the Batson challenge raised by his attorney 14 years ago in a St. Louis County capital murder trial that ...

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