KANSAS CITY — A St. Louis man convicted in a 1984 gas-station killing has been freed from prison on orders of a Cole County judge who ruled the man's capital murder trial was unconstitutionally flawed.
A trial deemed unconstitutional frees man after 23 years
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | 10:10 a.m. CDT;
updated 4:19 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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