Missouri
A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. The AG Got in the Way.
After meddling by Missouri's attorney general, a judge rejected Marcellus Williams’s innocence claim, even though prosecutors mishandled the murder weapon.
A St. Louis County, Missouri, judge upheld the murder conviction of Marcellus Williams, ruling that a prosecutor who contaminated key evidence by handling it without wearing gloves before Williams’s trial had not acted in “bad faith,” but instead was... [6838 chars]