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Missouri criminal law: driving in a drugged condition
In January 2013, St. Louis County, Mo., Police stopped a 29-year-old Dittmer man one evening while he was driving near Grant’s Farm, south of St. Louis, according to the Sunset Hills-Crestwood Patch. In March, the defendant was charged with driving under the influence...
St. Louis Arrests for Gun Crimes on the Rise
St. Louis police have targeted certain areas of the city in an attempt to reduce criminal activity, especially those involving guns. The initiative, which began in late August, continued throughout the Cardinals’ playoff games and met with surprising success. Mayor...
Vanishing Act, Part 2: Missing since 2003, little Christian Ferguson is almost surely dead. Police think they’ve fingered the culprit — and there’s nothing they can do about it.
Kristen Hinman A Riverfront Times Special Report. March 25, 2009 The 911 call came in half an hour after sunrise, at 6:09 a.m. on Wednesday, June 11, 2003. From a pay phone at the southeast corner of Page Boulevard and Skinker Parkway, just inside the St. Louis city...
Vanishing Act: Six years after the fact, the disappearance of nine-year-old Christian Ferguson remains a mystery.
Kristen Hinman A Riverfront Times Special Report. March 18, 2009 Three years old, with baby fat still puffing out his cheeks, the boy in the video grins up at the dreadlocked woman towering over him and asking his name. “Chis-ching!” he blurts. “That my ba-aaaaby!”...
Lawyer Can Withhold Info on Missing Boy
By: William C. Lhotka St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 26, 2008 JEFFERSON CITY — Clayton defense attorney John Rogers won’t have to turn over to a St. Louis County grand jury information he gathered in the case of the mysterious disappearance five years ago of...
Missouri Supreme Court Dispute Centers on Witness Notes
By: Donna Walter St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian, Feb 28, 2008 A lawyer representing a suspect in the disappearance of a 10- year-old boy asked the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday to deny a grand jury access to his witness notes. John Rogers...
Judge Seals Documents in Oswego Man’s Murder Trial
By: Hal Dardick Tribune staff reporter, October 19, 2007 A Will County judge Thursday barred further public release of documents detailing evidence in the death-penalty case against an Oswego man charged with murdering his wife and three children. Judge Daniel Rozak...
U of Missouri-St. Louis student guilty but free to leave Russia
By: Donna Walter (reprinted from the St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian, September 3, 2007) An UMSL student detained in Russia is free to return to St. Louis. Roxana Contreras’ trial concluded Friday with Russian prosecutors dropping charges that the...
Experts: Law won’t stop Web gamblers, but could help overseas payment services
By: Adam Goldman, Associated Press (reprinted from the USA Today (NY), October 24, 2006) NEW YORK – Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment...