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...
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 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...