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Article: Missouri Supreme Court rules prosecutor can't go after former client
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- Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
- Article date:
- April 2, 2008
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A county prosecutor should be barred from trying drug charges
against a woman because he previously represented the woman in a
similar case, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The high court unanimously decided that Missouri Supreme Court
rules on conflicts of interest prevent the prosecutor from pursuing
the case.
Holt County Prosecutor Syd Weybrew charged Heidi Parker Burns
last April with illegally possessing the painkiller Percocet. But
only five months earlier, Weybrew represented Burns against a charge
of illegally trying to obtain another painkiller, methadone. Weybrew
withdrew from the case after being elected prosecutor in Nov. 2006.
Burns' attorney, G. Spencer Miller, a solo ...