Twenty people await retrials in sexual predator cases

Saturday, November 23, 2002

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Twenty people confined as sexual predators are still awaiting new civil commitment trials six months after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that jurors had been given flawed instructions in the original trials.

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