State v. Cox

ALOK AHUJA, Judge.

The State of Missouri appeals the circuit court’s dismissal of an information charging Respondent Dallas Cox with murder in the second degree, based on the State’s pre-trial destruction of evidence which may have had exculpatory value. We reverse the circuit court’s dismissal of the information and remand for further proceedings.

Factual Background 1

On October 6, 2008, Stephen Akin, a resident of St. Joseph, was assaulted. The next day Akin informed the St. Joseph Police Department that the perpetrators were his uncle, Kenneth Akin, and Dallas Cox, a friend of his uncle. Akin…