BUCKLEW, RUSSELL E.

GENERAL INFORMATION

DOB: May 16, 1968
Race: White
Gender: Male

CRIME AND TRIAL

County of conviction: Boone (on venue transfer from Cape Girardeau)
Number of counts: 1 (not including non-homicide counts)
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Male
Date of crime: March 21, 1996
Date of sentencing: May 15, 1997

TRIAL COUNSEL:

Frederick A. Duchardt
Robert Craig Wolfrum
Beth Ann Davis

LEGAL STATUS:

Last judicial decision:

• Denial of Petition for Writ of Certiorari by Supreme Court, No. 05A1106, December 4, 2006 in Bucklew v. Luebbers, 127 S.Ct. 725 (December 4, 2006).

CURRENT COUNSEL:

Charlie Rogers and Cheryl Pilate
Wyrsch & Hobbs
1101 Walnut St.
1300 Mercantile Tower
Kansas City, MO 64106-2122
816-221-0080

Reported Opinions:

• Denial of Petition for Writ of Certiorari by Supreme Court, No. 05A1106, December 4, 2006 in Bucklew v. Luebbers, 127 S.Ct. 725 (December 4, 2006).
   
• Denial of habeas corpus affirmed by 8th Circuit Jan 30, 2006 at Bucklew v. Luebbers, 436 F.3d 1010 (8th Circuit 2006), rehearing denied, March 23, 2006.
   
• Denial of post-conviction relief affirmed by Bucklew v. State, 38 S.W.3d 395 (Mo. banc 2001), cert. denied, 122 S.Ct. 374 (U.S. 2001).
   
• Conviction and sentence affirmed by State v. Bucklew, 973 S.W.2d 83 (Mo. banc. 1998), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 1082 (1999).

Significant legal issues:

• Trial counsel's effectiveness regarding failure to investigate and present expert evidence regarding defendant's future dangerousness and adjustment to prison life.
   
• Trial counsel's failure to call Dr. Michael Gelbort as a witness during the penalty phase, in order to show that Mr. Bucklew has an organic brain dysfunction and neurological deficits, and that his brain damage affected his behavior.
   

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