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Article: Lawyer seeks life sentence for client: Missouri Supreme Court asked to overturn death sentence
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- Missouri Lawyers Media
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- October 29, 2009
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The lawyer for a Jefferson County man, sentenced to death for the
murder of an elderly DeSoto couple, asked the Missouri Supreme Court
to resentence him to life in prison without parole.
Rosemary Percival, the public defender representing Carman Deck
on appeal, said Missouri law requires that Deck be resentenced to
life. This appeal is from Deck's third penalty-phase trial - and his
third death sentence.
The law in question, Section 565.040.2, "clearly and expressly
states that in the event any death sentence is held to be
unconstitutional, the trial court should resentence the defendant to
life without parole," Percival told the court Tuesday.
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court found the ...