JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Supreme Court Judge Paul Wilson is starting a new role as the state’s chief justice. Wilson began a two-year term Thursday as the top judge, succeeding Judge George Draper, who remains on the court. Missouri’s chief justice position rotates every two years. Wilson was a longtime aide to former
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Randolph County prosecutor won’t charge a county deputy that shot and killed a man in March. Prosecutor Stephanie Luntsford told ABC 17 News that she decided not to file charges against the deputy that killed David Hill on March 23 in Jacksonville. The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Public governmental bodies in Missouri cannot charge fees for the time attorneys spend redacting documents prior to their release to the public, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the court ruling noted that the Missouri Sunshine Law allows officials to charge requestors for “research”
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Supreme Court has set an Oct. 5 date for the execution of a Columbia man convicted in a triple-murder. Ernest Lee Johnson was sentenced to death for the 1994 killing of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones at a Columbia convenience store with a claw hammer. Johnson’s execution
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camdenton man is charged with multiple sex crimes against a child after a nine-month investigation after a tip from a parent. According to a press release, Thomas Lee Earl Carnahan is charged with three counts of statutory rape of someone under the age of 14 and two counts of statutory sodomy
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man serving time for the death of Kent Heitholt is asking the high court for help. Charles Erickson is asking the Missouri Supreme Court to order a hearing to overturn his 2004 guilty plea. He’s claimed former prosecutor Kevin Crane coerced his story that he and Ryan Ferguson killed Heitholt
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri state representative said changes he suggested to the state’s parole eligibility were not intended to apply to a Cole County woman serving a life sentence for murder. Rep. Mark Sharp, D-Kansas City, told ABC 17 News he did not support an early release for Alyssa Bustamante, the St. Martins
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The legal team filed a notice of appeal to the state’s highest court Thursday after a ruling against them in Cole County court the day before
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man sentenced to federal prison for 23 years was given compassionate release today by a U.S. District Judge. Eric McCauley was sentenced in 2012 for marijuana and money-laundering felonies. In his order, Judge Stephen Bough stated, “Upon review of the record, the Court finds further incarceration is not needed to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A national advocacy group wants Gov. Mike Parson to veto a criminal justice bill over changes to the state’s parole board hearings. The National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers called for the veto of Senate Bill 26, which deals with several public safety issues. Included in the bill is a
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis and adjoining St. Louis County have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Missouri’s new law barring state and local authorities from enforcing federal gun laws. The suit filed Monday argues that the Republican-backed law would increase the risk of gun violence. It seeks an injunction to halt enforcement of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors in a case against a Columbia man accused in a 2017 killing are now required to present GPS data by July 6th. The GPS data is crucial in the case against 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams. McWilliams is charged with second-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action in the death of Augustus Roberts.
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Missouri’s Republican governor and attorney general have told the U.S. Department of Justice that they stand by the state’s new law that would ban police from enforcing federal gun rules.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is warning Missouri officials that the state can’t ignore federal law, after the governor signed a bill last week that bans police from enforcing federal gun rules. A top Justice Department official sent a letter Wednesday night saying the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution outweighs the measure that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman has been placed on two years of unsupervised probation in connection with a Columbia arson case from April. According to online court records, Alruekia Brown-Wells pleaded guilty to two counts of fourth-degree assault. Brown-Wells was arrested on felony charges of first-degree arson and endangering the welfare of a
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was placed on two years of unsupervised probation Thursday for unlawful use of a weapon, a misdemeanor, after shooting the gun into the air to break up a fight in Jefferson City at a funeral of a friend. Pierre Starks was arrested in Dec. 2019 after a
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County woman is now in a state mental hospital after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2020 murder case. Callaway County prosecutor Chris Wilson said Lola Crews made the plea on April 26 and effectively ends the case. Wilson said that two mental evaluations found that Crews
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general has closed an open-records complaint filed against Gov. Mike Parson. Records provided to The Associated Press show Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office last week closed the complaint filed by a Missouri news outlet. A Missouri Independent reporter had asked Schmitt’s office to investigate after Parson’s office refused to
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Each side agreed Tuesday to drop the lawsuit that Jennifer Henderson brought against the Business Loop 70 Community Improvement District in 2016.
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Assistant prosecutor David Hansen laid out his reasoning in an 11-page letter to Columbia police Chief Geoff Jones on Tuesday.
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