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2011 Stories by John H. Tucker

• St. Louis County Looking Nationally to Help Kids With Mental Illnesses

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Interesting lead story in today's Post-Dispatch, where Nancy Cambria reports that St. Louis County teenagers beset with mental illnesses are typically turned away by emergency rooms after their first ... More >>

• Week's Most Bizarre Court Case: Kenneth Smoot

  published Dec 28, 2011

  In what is likely one of the stranger cases taken up by a Missouri appeals court this year, a St. Louis convict temporarily dodged a sex offender tag, a savvy senior citizen showcased her technologica... More >>

• Appellate Judges: Adrienne Martin's Parents Deserve Shot at Busch Settlement Money

  published Dec 27, 2011

  The Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District released an opinion today declaring that George "Larry" Eby and Christine Trampler -- the parents of the late Adrienne Nicole Martin, former girlf... More >>

• Missouri Bar Proposes Overhaul to 32-Year-Old Criminal Code

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Right now, if you're convicted for possession of a controlled substance in Missouri, a low-level felony, you could be sentenced to a seven-year prison term. And if you're convicted for involuntary man... More >>

• Police Department Teams With UMSL to Fight Crime

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Earlier today the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners voted to approve a partnership between the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the Office of the Mayor and the University of Missouri--S... More >>

• Illinois Sheriff Cited for Sex Act With Another Man in Metro East

  published Dec 20, 2011

  The sheriff of Perry County, Illinois, was charged with indecent conduct last Friday by a Caseyville police officer who observed him engaging in a sex act with another man in a parking lot. In the e... More >>

• National Ink for Missouri's Teacher-Student Facebook Law

  published Dec 19, 2011

  The Show-Me State made an appearance on page A1 of Sunday's New York Times in an article outlining the various ways U.S. school districts are grappling with the ethical and legal implications of elect... More >>

• Inmates More Likely to Die in Missouri Jails Than in 42* Other States

  published Dec 15, 2011

  The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics released a bunch of numbers yesterday offering an exhaustive demographic account of inmates who are dying in prisons and jails across the count... More >>

• Should Undocumented Sexual Predators Be Detained or Deportedr

  published Dec 13, 2011

  In a unanimous opinion made public this morning, a three-member panel of judges with the Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District sent a pointed -- some might say ironic -- message to illegal... More >>

• Suspect Charged for Slitting Throat of Four-Year-Old Child in the Ozarks

  published Dec 09, 2011

  The gruesome killing of a little boy in Wright County led authorities to charge a 22-year-old Hartville man with first-degree murder in what could foreshadow a death-penalty case, reports News Channel... More >>

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  Cops: Underage Kids Beat up Mom After She Tosses out Beer

  published Dec 08, 2011

  After their mother took away their beer because they were underage, a daughter and son allegedly beat her up, leaving her bleeding, scratched and bruised, and then fled from the house before the polic... More >>

• Beware of Fashion-Conscious "Logo Bandit" in West County

  published Dec 07, 2011

  In the St. Louis metropolitan region, there appear to be two types of bank robbers. First, there are the traditional types who hit various branches in the city, clad in pedestrian bank-robbing garb ... More >>

• Post-Dispatch Subject of New Lawsuit

  published Dec 06, 2011

  A dozen former employees of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are suing the local daily for fraudulent inducement and negligent misrepresentation, claiming that the paper's top brass pulled out of a 2007 ag... More >>

• Coroner Suggests Home Intruder Died From Excited Delirium Following Arrest

  published Dec 05, 2011

  Was "excited delirium" the reason a 42-year-old Metro East man died in an emergency room following his arrest last Fridayr According to a news release ciculated by the Madison County Cornorer's Offic... More >>

• Circuit Attorney: Bring on the Complaints!

  published Dec 01, 2011

  Jennifer Joyce, St. Louis's circuit attorney, wants you to know she can take your hits. So confident is she, in fact, that she's launched an online sounding board called "From the Complaint Department... More >>

• Ten Suspects Netted in FBI Heroin Sting

  published Nov 30, 2011

  Members of an FBI task force blanketed the St. Louis metropolitan region during the early hours of yesterday morning in a three-county sting operation in attempt to dismantle a heroin trafficking ring... More >>

• Hypnosis for Eating Disorder Led to False Memories About Satanic Cult Abuse, Suit Says

  published Nov 29, 2011

  A Minnesota woman is suing her Ballwin eating-disorder clinic and its director for giving her hypnosis treatment and psychotropic drugs that caused her to believe she was the victim of multiple rapes ... More >>

• Missouri Fares Well in Avoiding Arrest-Related Deaths

  published Nov 29, 2011

  For many cops, shooting a suspect during the course of a crime means shooting to kill, and it's an action to be used only in matters of imminent danger. With that in mind it's heartening that from 2... More >>

• Mayors Condemn "Most Dangerous Cities" Rankings; Book's Release Delayed

  published Nov 23, 2011

  It's that time of the year -- football games, turkey dinners, leafy streets ... and the much-anticipated, much-maligned release of the country's most dangerous cities, as tabulated by the independent ... More >>

• Two St. Charles Bodybuilders Indicted for Selling Chinese HGH

  published Nov 22, 2011

  Two bodybuilders from St. Charles County have been indicted for conspiracy to purchase and resell Chinese-processed Human Growth Hormone, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Mi... More >>

• Eastern District of Missouri Sees Surge in Bank Fraud Prosecutions, Bucking National Trend

  published Nov 21, 2011

  Federal prosecutions against financial institutions are ticking downward across the country, but the Eastern District of Missouri is defying that trend, nearly matching New York City's district in per... More >>

• Cop Nabbed Gun Suspect Based on Way He Adjusted Pants

  published Nov 18, 2011

  Can a cop truly determine whether a man on a sidewalk is packing heat based on the way he adjusts his pantsr No, according to the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals in an opinion writt... More >>

• Appeals Court Goes Inside the Toolkit of a Burlgar

  published Nov 16, 2011

  As the saying goes, a good carpenter never blames his tools. But in the case of Brad Mills, who apparently arrives to the job very well prepared, the blame for his legal troubles can be placed squarel... More >>

• Why Are Hate Crimes Nineteen Times More Likely in Kansas City Than St. Louisr

  published Nov 16, 2011

  The FBI released its annual batch of data on hate crimes earlier this week, offering a breakdown by state and jurisdiction. Here's the most curious thing that jumps out immediately: Number of hate cr... More >>

• Does Missouri Allow Convicted Felons to Possess Gunsr

  published Nov 15, 2011

  In a 4,650-word, front-page treatise in yesterday's New York Times, author Michael Luo lays bare a significant trend: each year, thousands of felons across the country have their gun rights reinstated... More >>