State v. Walker (MLW No. 61550/Case No. ED93225 - 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Richter, C.J.) Criminal Law: Involuntary Manslaughter - Search Warrants - Defendant's Remorse
A man who was sentenced to 14 years in jail for involuntary manslaughter could be released in as few as 120 days. Adam J. Perkins, 22, of High Ridge was sentenced Sept. 15 to seven years in the Department of Corrections for involuntary manslaughter in a car accident while intoxicated, and seven years for second-degree assault for a total of 14 years, with credit for time served. Pursuant to RSMo. 559.115 of the probation code, however, Perkins will be allowed to complete shock incarceration for 120 days.
During an emotional courtroom hearing yesterday that included tearful testimony from the victim's family, a Mexico, Mo., man was given the maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for an April drunken driving crash that killed a University of Missouri-Rolla student. Donald R. Thompson, 47, pleaded guilty Oct. 29 to involuntary manslaughter after his Dodge pickup collided head-on with a car driven by 19-year-old Heidi J. Strodtman on April 21 about 15 miles north of Columbia on Highway 63. Thompson was driving while intoxicated and traveling on the wrong side of the highway at the time. Strodtman was on her way to her hometown of Salisbury, in Chariton County west of Moberly.
Kathleen Hagen, Kansas City, Missouri, argued (Henri J. Watson, on the brief), for appel... of her child, a crime classified as involuntary manslaughter under Mo.Rev.Stat. Sec. 565.024.1(1) ...
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District reversed an armed criminal action charge based on a recent Missouri Supreme Court decision that says the underlying felony for an armed criminal action charge must involve purposeful conduct. In State of Missouri, Respondent v. Phillip Belton, Appellant a man appealed his involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action jury convictions. He claimed there was a lack of evidence to support the involuntary manslaughter conviction and the jury was given instructional error on the charge of armed criminal action.
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- An expectant mother was in the throes of labor in her Springfield home. As Amanda Gardner spent more than 48 hours in labor, Elaine Diamond, her midwife, came to Gardner's house frequently to check on her -- and repeatedly told her she did not need to go to a hospital, according to Greene County prosecutors.
..., was charged in Greene County with involuntary manslaughter. Missouri has almost no regulatory au...
A Missouri truck driver pleaded guilty yesterday to involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of two people last year after an accident on Interstate 70 in Columbia. Carl West, 62, of Novinger pleaded guilty to two counts of second- degree involuntary manslaughter in front of Circuit Judge Gene Hamilton. Assistant Prosecutor April Wilson said she recommended concurrent three-year prison terms on the charges but deferred to the court whether those sentences should be executed.
Prosecutors violated a vehicular manslaughter defendant's Fourth Amendment rights when they obtained records of his text messages from his cell phone service provider, the Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a suppression order. The defendant was charged with involuntary manslaughter and leaving the scene of an automobile accident. In an effort to establish that the defendant was the driver of the vehicle involved and perhaps get him to confess, prosecutors used investigative subpoenas to obtain his text message records from his cell phone service provider for the day of the accident as well as for several weeks thereafter.
Jury appreciation week was two weeks ago, but that didn't stop jurors from weighing heavily on the minds of the judges on the bench of the Missouri Supreme Court, which handed down two opinions last week pondering appropriate jury selections and instructions. The state's high court overturned two murder convictions decided by St. Louis-area juries, finding in one instance a Batson violation had occurred and in the other a jury should have received involuntary manslaughter instructions.
Three sons of a man killed in a car wreck three years ago received $530,000 in settlements with the father's uninsured motorist policies. In an unusual twist, their other brother was driving the car that crashed and was sent to prison for involuntary manslaughter. Around 2 a.m. on June 2, 2008, Christopher Seats was driving on a two-lane rural highway in Lincoln County, traveling at speeds of up to 127 mph, according to the plaintiffs' attorney's description. The car ran off the road and hit a utility pole and a tree, killing Seats' father, James Seats, a passenger. Christopher Seats was uninsured. After the wreck, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. His three brothers, Joseph Seats, Cody Seats and Jared Seats, pursued a wrongful death claim against their father's uninsured m...
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