UPDATE: Jury selection was taking longer than anticipated. St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison, prosecutors and Greitens’ attorneys had planned to work through two sets of 40 prospective jurors during the first day of jury selection. They were still working on the first group at the end of the day. Ten prospective jurors have been…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Women who say comedian Bill Cosby knocked them out with intoxicants and sexually assaulted them decades ago are finally getting a chance to confront him — and they aren’t holding back. Janice Baker-Kinney will return to the witness stand on Thursday after punctuating her first two…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An attorney is asking an Illinois state court to reconsider the conviction of a man serving life in prison for the 2009 killings of his wife and their two young sons. The Belleville News Democrat reports Christopher Coleman’s attorney Lloyd Cueto Jr. filed the request Tuesday. Coleman was convicted of first-degree…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Comedian Bill Cosby has arrived for the fourth day of jury selection in his retrial on sexual assault charges. Cosby stumbled slightly getting out of an SUV on Thursday and then put a hand up to say he was OK before walking into the suburban Philadelphia courthouse where lawyers will work…
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is expected to ask a judge to move up his criminal trial to start in two weeks, more than a month earlier than scheduled. Attorneys for the Republican governor at a St. Louis Circuit Court hearing Monday also said they anticipate asking for…
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis prosecutors do not have the photo at the heart of the indictment of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens but told a judge Wednesday that they plan to get it. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and assistant prosecutor Robert Steele were in court along with Greitens’ lawyers for…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who was with Anthony Lamar Smith on the day he was killed by a St. Louis police officer says he believes Smith was unarmed. Jason Stockley’s first-degree murder trial began Tuesday. The white former officer is accused of fatally shooting Smith, who was black, in December 2011. Stockley and his…
(St. Louis) – KTRS Prosecutors are not happy with former officer Jason Stockley’s decision to wave a jury trial and instead rely on a judge’s ruling in the case. However they hope dashboard video, witness statements and DNA will lead to Stockley’s conviction for allegedly shooting a black suspect in 2011. 36-year old Stockley is…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A trial is underway in suburban St. Louis in the case of a mother accused of poisoning her 9-year-old son for almost a year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 36-year-old Rachel Kinsella’s St. Louis County trial on charges of first-degree assault and child endangerment began Tuesday. A prosecutor, Sheila Whirley, told…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri prosecutor says he’ll seek the death penalty against a woman accused of killing a disabled man to shift attention away from her in another slaying. St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar announced Thursday he’ll seek capital punishment against Pamela Huff. Missouri has 26 people awaiting execution, none women.…