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High court splits 4-3 on ‘abandonment of counsel’ doctrine

The Missouri Supreme Court split Tuesday on a decision that examined a lawyer's failure to file a timely post-conviction appeal for an incarcerated client. In the 4-3 decision, Judges Laura Denvir Stith, Michael Wolff and Richard Teitelman formed a coalition that sided with the inmate, David Gehrke. In 1998, Gehrke pleaded guilty to several felony counts of ...

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