The City of Sikeston, Missouri, was not responsible for the actions of its former public safety director Drew Juden in the wrongful arrest and conviction of David Robinson, an attorney for the city has argued. The city, Juden and former detective John Blakely are defendants in a federal civil suit brought by Robinson. Each defendant is represented by a different attorney. Each defendant, however, is asking the judge to dismiss the suit on various grounds...

Filmmaker Steve Turner’s documentary “The Past is Never Dead” on the exoneration of David Robinson for the 2001 murder of Sheila Box will premiere on Amazon Prime on May 17, Turner announced Monday. Robinson was convicted in 2001 of the Sikeston, Missouri, murder of Box on the word of two jailhouse informants who later recanted...

David Robinson and his attorneys filed a blistering lawsuit Monday alleging multiple examples of witness intimidation, conspiracy and several direct and indirect actions over a decade leading to the wrongful conviction and continued incarceration in a Sikeston, Missouri, murder case. These actions kept Robinson in prison for 17 years prior to his exoneration...

Filmmaker Steve Turner’s documentary “The Past is Never Dead,” a chronicle of the David Robinson murder exoneration, will be screened at 6 p.m. Oct. 15 in Rose Theater on Southeast Missouri State University’s campus. Robinson was convicted in 2001 of the Sikeston, Missouri, murder of Sheila Box on the word of two jailhouse informants who later recanted...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- David Robinson walked away a free man Monday night, after nearly 18 years of being incarcerated for a murder he did not commit. His exoneration, which began May 1, was completed late Monday after some fierce legal wrangling. Finally, close to 10 p.m., the Department of Corrections relented its position. It temporarily argued the Supreme Court had ordered Robinson to be held for 30 days or for there to be a retrial...

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley recommended today that David Robinson be released from prison after the Missouri Supreme Court had earlier ruled that Robinson's constitutional rights had been violated during his murder trial. In a letter to Scott County Prosecutor Paul Boyd, Hawley wrote that "this office recommends that the pending criminal charges against David Robinson be dismissed and he be released from the custody of Jefferson City (Missouri) Correctional Center."...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — David Robinson’s attorney stormed out of the Jefferson City Correctional facility Monday evening en route to filing an emergency writ of habeas corpus to demand the Department of Corrections release the man exonerated for the murder of Sheila Box in 2000...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Missouri attorney general and U.S. Senate hopeful Josh Hawley visited the hometown of recently exonerated David Robinson on Friday, but could offer no specific update regarding why his office has thus far prevented his release from prison...

One of the arguments the Missouri Attorney General’s Office is now making to defend its conviction of David Robinson is faulty recording practices by the public defense investigator in the case. Robinson was convicted for the 2000 murder of Sheila Box on the testimony of two jailhouse informants who since have recanted. No physical evidence ties Robinson to the crime, and another man, Romanze Mosby confessed to shooting Box to several people...

The State of Missouri continues to defend David Robinson's conviction. In a 76-page document, submitted by Attorney General Joshua Hawley and released early Friday evening, the state has asked Missouri's Supreme Court to revise its report from special master judge Darrell Missey to correct "erroneous findings of facts and conclusions" in Robinson's appeal in the 2000 murder case of Sheila Box...

David Robinson has been on the phone a lot lately, talking with family and friends about the report by Judge Darrell Missey, who is recommending to the Missouri Supreme Court that Robinson’s murder conviction be vacated. “I talked to my youngest daughter, and she cried for about 15 minutes, and I had to call her back,” Robinson said during a phone call from prison to the Southeast Missourian on Monday. ...

The city of Sikeston, Missouri, has placed a detective on administrative leave after a judge issued a report Friday that stated police and prosecutors violated David Robinson’s due process in the Sheila Box murder trial and called out the detective in a searing assessment that said detective John Blakely “is lacking in candor or competence, or both.” ...

A judge appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court issued a report Friday saying a Sikeston, Missouri, man convicted of murder is innocent. The judge recommended the justices exonerate David Robinson for Sheila Box’s murder and proclaim his innocence. Furthermore, the judge, a “special master” in this court arrangement, said police and the former assistant attorney general who tried the case “knowingly presented false testimony about the setting” of key testimony and “failed to take any steps to correct that false testimony.” ...

HILLSBORO, Mo. -- Sikeston police chief Mike Williams on Tuesday reaffirmed his interviews and reports made in 2000 about David Robinson. Williams is the final witness in Robinson's latest court battle that aims to overturn his murder conviction at the Missouri Supreme Court...

Sikeston's lead detective identified but chose not to pursue as a suspect the man who later confessed to the 2000 killing of a Sikeston, Missouri, woman, the detective testified Thursday. Sikeston Department of Public Safety detective John Blakely testified he learned Sikeston man Romanze Mosby may have been involved in the crime but did not investigate further before another man, David Robinson, stood trial in 2001...

HILLSBORO, Mo. -- Romanze Mosby mumbled under the hiss on the cassette, but as the taped statement he made in 2004 filled the Jefferson County Courtroom on Tuesday, his confession was unmistakable. "She raised up, and I shot her," he said on the tape...

HILLSBORO, Mo. — Testimony on Thursday centered around Romanze Mosby, the man who confessed to the 2000 murder of Sheila Box, during the second day of David Robinson’s case review. Robinson was convicted in 2001 of killing Box in Sikeston, Missouri. He continues to serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole but is hoping a series of hearings going on now will lead to his exoneration...

HILLSBORO, Mo. -- David Robinson shuffled into the Jefferson County courthouse Wednesday morning and waved to his family. They filled half the gallery, many wearing "Justice for David" shirts. His shackles jingled as he stooped to wipe his eyes. "I'mma get emotional," he said quietly, taking his seat at the defendant's table to wait for Judge Darrell Missey...

Former Sikeston, Missouri, Department of Public Safety director Drew Juden on Wednesday denied all knowledge of allegations made against a detective accused of threatening a witness the day before David Robinson stood trial for the 2000 murder of Sheila Box...

Recordings of interviews in the Sheila Box murder case are missing from the Attorney General's Office. The recordings are evidence in an ongoing case that will go before the Missouri Supreme Court in August. They are records required for permanent safekeeping because they involve a Class A felony conviction, according to the Secretary of State's policies...

Interview summaries, evidence reports and an unknown quantity of other documents involving Romanze Mosby, who was a suspect in the 2000 murder of Sheila Box, are missing, lost or being withheld by the Sikeston, Missouri, Department of Public Safety...

three witnesses in the Sheila Box murder case — including the two who testified against Robinson — over the years have made accusations of police corruption. Another victim in a related crime involving Mosby told the Southeast Missourian in an interview the investigation into that crime was “crooked.” The accusations are inflammatory, made by individuals with criminal records and dubious credibility, but two of the accusations come from the same people who put Robinson in prison, people the state trusts to hold together Robinson’s conviction.

An extensive examination of public records relating to the investigation of a 2000 Sikeston, Missouri, murder has revealed potential perjury by a detective; missing evidence from state prosecutors' files; missing investigative documents from police archives; and a police department's nonexistent investigation into a suspect who later confessed to the murder of Sheila Box...