by Bert | Aug 9, 2019 | Missouri
“The facts presented by the underlying crime are appalling and horrifying.” That is a line not from the Missouri Supreme Court’s majority opinion affirming the death sentence of Craig Wood, but instead from the dissent. And it is undeniably true. The evidence that Mr....
by Bert | Sep 13, 2017 | Missouri
Thomas A. Carroll, a former detective in St. Louis, is currently serving a 52-month prison sentence for a crime he committed in the summer of 2014. Carroll pled guilty to violating the civil rights of Michael Waller by brutally assaulting him while he was handcuffed...
by Alec | Apr 7, 2016 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
In a case of first impression in the state of Missouri, an appeals court has removed St. Louis County District Attorney Robert McCulloch’s office from prosecuting a murder case after a judge found prosecutors had violated the defendant’s attorney-client privilege, and...
by Alec | Jan 7, 2015 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
In the ongoing wake of a St. Louis county grand jury’s decision not to hand down an indictment against Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Monday saw two new developments in response to the behavior of the prosecutors in the case. St....
by OpenFile | Mar 24, 2014 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
Earlier this month, Ryan Ferguson – the Columbia man who spent nearly 10 years of a 40 year sentence in jail for a robbery and murder that he didn’t commit – announced that he was filing a $100 million lawsuit against the police and prosecutors who...
by OpenFile | Feb 4, 2014 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
Platte County Circuit Judge Owens Lee Hull has ordered the Missouri State Attorney General’s office off Mark Woodworth’s case in a forceful order handed down last week. Judge Hull wrote Wednesday, “Given the history of this case, at this point in...
