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| Missouri death row inmate seeks new trial |
| By chron.com- Summer Ballentine |
| Published: 10/16/2014 |
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of killing an elderly couple during a break-in and sentenced to die deserves a new trial because he wasn't able to mount a proper defense for various reasons, including his debilitating anxiety, his attorney argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court. During his murder trial in the 2010 slayings of Johnnie and Coleen Wilson at their rural home in Lebanon, Jesse Driskill didn't have access to his anxiety medication and he had to leave the courtroom at times to avoid having a panic attack in front of the jury, said his lawyer, Rosemary Percival. "If he had not absented himself, he would have had another panic attack," she told the judges. Read More. |
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