Disgraced St. Louis prosecutor loses law license

ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a former St. Louis city prosecutor who helped cover up a police detective's beating of a handcuffed man.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the state's high court last month revoked Bliss Barber Worrell's Missouri law license.

Worrell was sentenced in July to 18 months of probation and 140 hours of community service.

She pleaded guilty in October of last year to misprision of a felony, or helping conceal a crime.

She admitted she failed to tell officials what she knew about the 2014 attack involving former St. Louis officer Thomas A. Carroll at a police station, and she helped file a bogus charge against the victim.