A Prosecutor Admits His Office’s Incompetence Cut Off an Innocent Man’s Path to Exoneration
Matthew Jacober stood to address the judge inside the small, packed courtroom on the third floor of the St. Louis County Courthouse in Clayton,...
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His Best Chance to Get Off Death Row Was DNA on the Murder Weapon, but Prosecutors “Contaminated” the Evidence
Long before the 2001 trial started, then-St. Louis County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Keith Larner decided the butcher knife used to kill Felicia...
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A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.
A St. Louis County, Missouri, judge upheld the murder conviction of Marcellus Williams, ruling that a prosecutor who contaminated key evidence by...
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Missouri Kills Marcellus Williams Over Objections From Prosecutor and Victim’s Family
After a string of courts failed to intervene and the state’s governor declined to offer clemency, Missouri prison officials executed Marcellus...
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