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Post office conviction overturned by Supreme Court

August 23, 2010 By admin

A man convicted in 1993 for breaking into the Neosho post office and damaging a safe has had his conviction overturned by the Missouri Supreme Court.

The court has ruled that the state lacks jursidiction in the case of Dwight Laughlin, because it occurred on federal property. A unanimous court has ruled Lauglin was convicted by a state court without jurisdiction to do so. It has orderd Laughlin discharged from 40-year prison sentence.

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