Legal Opinion
State v. Buchli
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided September 28, 2004No. WD 62178PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL M. SPINDEN, Judge.
A jury found that Richard I. Buchli II beat Richard Armitage to death in their law partnership office on May 5, 2000, in downtown Kansas City. The jury convicted Buchli of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Buchli appeals on a number of grounds, including a challenge of the sufficiency of the state’s evidence. We affirm the circuit court’s judgment.
A legal assistant in the law office, Shannon Miller, apparently was the first to find Armitage after he was beaten. He was unconscious, lying on his office’s floor in a pool of blood. She had decided to…
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