BAUMRUK, KENNETH

DOB: April 13, 1939
Race: White
Gender: Male

CRIME AND TRIAL

County of conviction: St. Louis
Number of counts: 1
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Female
Date of crime: May 5, 1992
Date of sentencing: June 18, 2001

TRIAL COUNSEL:

Joe Green

LEGAL STATUS:

Current proceedings:

• Appeal of conviction and death sentence filed on March, 28, 2007 in Missouri Supreme Court, No. SC88497.

Last judicial decision:

• Convicted and sentenced to death in second jury trial in St. Charles County in State v. Baumruk, No. 0511-CR00094 on March 19, 2007.

CURRENT COUNSEL:

Deborah B. Wafer
Missouri Public Defender System
1221 Locust Street
St. Louis, MO  63103
314-340-7662

REPORTED OPINIONS:

• Convicted and sentenced to death in second jury trial in St. Charles County in State v. Baumruk, No. 0511-CR00094 on March 19, 2007.
   
• Writ of prohibition seeking removal of trial judge granted by Missouri Supreme Court, Case No. SC 86040.  State ex rel. Baumruk v. Seigel, 150 S.W.3d 286 (Mo. 2004)(holding that Mark Siegel, J., trial judge in the first trial, could not follow the trial to another county on remand.)
   
•    Conviction and sentence vacated by State v. Baumruk, 85 S.W.3d 644 (2002)

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES:

• Court reversed conviction and sentence, holding that the trial court abused  its discretion by failing to transfer venue of the case, which was tried in the  same courthouse where the alleged murders occurred.

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