State Ex Rel. Nixon v. Peterson

WILLIAM RAY PRICE, JR., Judge.

Richard Peterson is an inmate in a state correctional center. The attorney general filed a petition against Peterson for incarceration reimbursement pursuant to the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act (MIRA), section 217.825 et seq. 1 The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the state. Peterson appeals, arguing that the definition of “assets” in section 217.827(1) 2 was unconstitutionally vague, that the statutory procedures in the MIRA violated his right to due process, and that the attorney general lacked authority to file the petition for…