Mo. Supreme Court to hear Woodworth challenge

Saturday, August 18, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Oct. 4 in the case of a north-central Missouri man appealing his murder conviction in the 1990 death of a neighbor.

The hearing comes five months after a Boone County judge appointed by the high court in an advisory role deemed Mark Woodworth a victim of "a manifest injustice." The judge concluded the Chillicothe man should be freed or receive a new trial.

Woodworth was 16 when Cathy Robertson was shot to death in 1990 in her rural Livingston County home. He was first convicted in a 1995 jury trial. A second jury convicted Woodworth four years later after he was briefly released on appeal.

The Oct. 4 hearing starts at 9:30 a.m. and will be carried live online.

Online:

Missouri Supreme Court at www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=27

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jdb 9 months ago

Looks like another fine prosecution by Kenny Hulshof is going to be thrown out. This will make three of Kenny's railroad jobs thrown out by the courts. Why does this man still have a license to practice law?

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