by OpenFile | Nov 15, 2013 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
In a busy week for Missouri, an appellate court has denied the state’s appeal in Mark Woodworth’s case, upholding a lower court’s previous decision to exclude bullet and gun evidence from Woodworth’s retrial. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of...
by Jane | Nov 8, 2013 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
Barbara Shelly of The Kansas City Star has published a powerful opinion piece on the emerging pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in Missouri and the failure of judges or the state bar to do anything about it. Shelly recounts the recent spate of murder cases out of...
by OpenFile | Jul 17, 2013 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
In January we reported on the Mark Woodworth case – yet another troubling conviction won by former prosecutor-turned-Congressman Kenny Hulshof, who has multiple findings of prosecutorial misconduct against him. In January, the Supreme Court of Missouri adopted...
by Jane | Jan 23, 2013 | Missouri, The Open File Blog
In 1990, Cathy Robertson was murdered in her Jefferson City home. Her 16 year old neighbor and family friend, Mark Woodsworth, became a suspect in her death and was ultimately tried and convicted of murder. Mark Woodsworth’s case is the third in which a Missouri...
