by admin | Apr 3, 2007 | Crime / Courts
A mistrial has been declared in the trial of a man who has confessed to killing a Kirkwood police sergeant. The St. Louis County Circuit judge declared a mistrial after jurors spent 12 hours deliberating the fate of Kevin Johnson without reaching a verdict. Johnson...
by admin | Mar 21, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments in the case of William Weaver , whose lawyers are appealing the hit man’s death sentence in a 1987 killing in Normandy in St. Louis County. Weaver was hired, 20 years ago, to shoot a witness in a federal drug case. The...
by admin | Mar 21, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court’s rejection of a death sentence for a St. Louis man is the second time within a year the Court has overturned a death sentence because prosecutors in St. Louis County removed Blacks from juries. The Supreme Court Opinion says the removals...
by admin | Mar 20, 2007 | Crime / Courts
Kenneth Baumruk shows no emotion as he hears himself sentenced to death, again, for killing his estranged wife in a St. Louis County courthouse shooting 15 years ago. Baumruk killed her during a divorce hearing. He wounded several the people before a security guard...
by admin | Mar 14, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The 48 inmates on Missouri death row could have a little more time on their hands. A bill before a House committee would freeze all pending executions until January 1st, 2011. Kevin Green testified in support of the bill. He says as a husband to woman who was...
