State Ex Rel. Nixon v. Houston

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

The State of Missouri appeals from a judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Cole County denying a petition filed by the Missouri Attorney General to recover from Respondent Kimberly Houston costs the State has incurred as a result of her incarceration pursuant to the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act (“MIRA”), §§ 217.825 to 217.841. 2

Respondent has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections since 1995, serving sentences for her convictions of two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action. On February 28, 2006, the…