State ex rel. Mark A. Richardson, Relator v. The Honorable Daniel R. Green

The prosecutor in the underlying action seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the trial court from applying section 558.046 1 to reduce Larry Welch’s sentences for vehicular manslaughter. 2 Section 558.046, as relevant here, permits a reduction of sentence only when the inmate has been convicted of an alcohol-related crime that does not involve violence or the threat of violence. The prosecutor contends that the trial court lacked authority to reduce Mr. Welch’s involuntary manslaughter sentences under section 558.046 because a crime that causes death and injury through the operation of a…