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The Missouri Attorney General's Office last week gave up on an effort to seize an inmate's retirement income as reimbursement for his incarceration.

A dying declaration is an exception to the right of criminal defendants to be able to confront their accusers, the 8th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Friday.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of curfews and electronic monitoring for people charged with child pornography crimes.

The Supreme Court has sent a case back to a circuit court to consider new DNA evidence.

The 20-minute clock for a driver to attempt to consult with an attorney starts ticking once an officer reads a Miranda warning - regardless of whether the driver asked for a lawyer before or after the reading, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled today.

A municipal law attorney and former Ballwin city prosecutor pleaded guilty on Monday to possessing child pornography. George Richard Fox is facing a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000. Fox, 67, was an ...

State v. Moore (MLW No. 60135/Case No. SC90125 – 13 pages) Where a defendant was charged with felony failure to return to confinement when he returned six days late to jail after he was released temporarily by his sentencing judge, ...

The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed Carman Deck's [left] death sentences Tuesday in a unanimous decision, but the case prompted extensive debate among judges on the legal concept of proportionality.

State ex rel. Lyons v. Lombardi (MLW No. 60137/Case No. SC88625 – 6 pages) Where a defendant who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death argued that he is mentally retarded, substantial evidence supported the findings by a ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a Gentry County woman's felony drunken driving conviction as a persistent offender.

The state law restricting the Halloween activities of sex offenders is unconstitutional - at least as applied to offenders convicted before the 2008 law took effect, the Missouri Supreme Court said in a 4-3 decision Tuesday.