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(This article was originally published in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, St. Louis, MO, another Dolan Media publication.) Polygraph tests were held admissible in a case where police lied to a defendant and told her that she had failed the polygraph test to get her confession. The defendant went on to confess, and the Missouri Supreme Court said the fact that she actually passed the test can be admitted at her trial.
A Jefferson County jury has sided with the defendant in a collision case. David Grimes, a De Soto resident who was 31 at the time of the accident, collided in September 2009 with another driver, 21-year- old defendant Zachary Mangin of Festus.
...Defendants. Civil Action No. 10-CV-4496 (NGG) (RER). Response...
LEBANON -- The Middle-town man who killed Warren County sheriff's Sgt. Brian Dulle in a crash stemming from a high-speed chase will spend at least the next 25 years in prison. Law enforcement, members of the Dulle and Isreal families, and onlookers watched Tuesday afternoon as a Warren County Common Pleas judge sentenced 23-year-old Marcus Isreal.
This Note presents a split between two federal circuit courts regarding the interaction of the standing doctrine and the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule. The courts had to decide whether evidence obtained illegally from both a criminal defendant and a third party may be admitted in court through use of the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule. The standing doctrine requires that there be a violation of the defendant's own constitutional rights in order for the court to suppress the evidence through use of the exclusionary rule. The inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule allows the government to use illegally obtained evidence if law enforcement officials would have eventually discovered it by legal means. The First Circuit com...
A St. Louis County jury has ruled for the defendant, Greyhound Lines Inc., in a lawsuit brought by a couple injured in a collision with a parked bus. The claim arose from a 2008 accident in which a bus pulled over on Interstate 170 after the driver became aware that the luggage bin door was open, according to Greyhound's attorney, Ronald A. Roth of Granite City, Ill.,-based Roth & Evans. A vehicle driven by plaintiffs Robert and Carol Deien then struck the bus which, according to their complaint, was in the traffic lane.
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