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4 days ago · But ultimately, a state judge ruled against Bell’s motion to vacate Williams’ conviction and sentencing. “There is no basis for a court to find that Williams is innocent,” Judge Bruce F ...
4 days ago · During a motion-to-vacate hearing August 28, a prosecutor from Williams’ 2001 trial “admitted that he had struck (a potential juror from the jury pool) because like Mr. Williams, (the ...
3 days ago · In January, Bell, the St. Louis County prosecutor, filed a motion to vacate or set aside Williams’ conviction and sentence, citing the DNA experts who said Williams was excluded from DNA on the ...
3 days ago · Williams’ lawyers and St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell filled a joint brief Saturday asking the Missouri Supreme Court to send the case back to a lower court for a “more comprehensive hearing” on Bell’s January motion to vacate Williams’ 2001 conviction and sentence.
Sep 12, 2024 · A Missouri judge on Thursday rejected an effort by the St. Louis prosecutor to vacate the conviction of Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate who has long claimed he’s innocent of the murder...
5 days ago · The prosecutor’s motion said that the two main witnesses against Mr. Williams had not been credible, and in fact had incentives to testify against him. Mr. Williams, the motion said, was not the ...
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4 days ago · Although Bell moved to overturn Williams' murder conviction, state Attorney General Andrew Bailey argued it should stand and ordered St. Louis County Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton − who accepted ...
