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Missouri: Habeas Corpus Granted to Prisoner Denied Jail Credit
Loaded on Dec. 7, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2016, page 41
A Missouri Court of Appeals granted a prisoner’s writ of habeas corpus and ordered him “immediately released from custody.”
Before the state appellate court was the habeas petition of Andrew Kory. Kory was imprisoned on July 2, 2014 and charged with the rape of a minor. Those charges were dismissed ...
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