by Mike Lear | Mar 10, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A judge has denied an appeal of the plea agreement made by the woman who when she was 15 killed nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten of St. Martins. Alyssa Bustamante is serving a sentence of life plus 30 years for murdering Olten, her neighbor, in 2009. She had asked a...
by Mike Lear | Feb 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, Legislature, News
A bill has been heard in a House committee that aims to solve a problem with the sentencing of juveniles found guilty of first-degree murder in Missouri. A 2005 Missouri Supreme Court ruling eliminated the sentence of death for juveniles. Then in 2012 the U.S. Supreme...
