Judge's ruling frees Mo. man convicted in 1984 murder

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- 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.

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