EDWARDS, KIMBER

GENERAL INFORMATION

DOB: March 29, 1964
Race: Black
Gender: Male

CRIME AND TRIAL

County of conviction: St. Louis
Number of counts: One
Race of victim: Black
Gender of victim: Female
Date of crime: August 22, 2000
Date of sentencing: June 27, 2002

TRIAL COUNSEL:

Charles Moreland, Michelle Monahan

Current proceedings: 

• Petition for habeas corpus pending in Eastern District of Missouri, Case No. 4:06-CV-01419-CEJ.

Last judicial decision: 

• Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Missouri Supreme Court is denied in Edwards v. Missouri, 127 S.Ct. 1375 (February 26, 2007).

CURRENT COUNSEL:

Kent E. Gipson
Public Interest Litigation Clinic
305 East 63rd Street
Kansas City, MO  64113
816-363-2795
816-363-2799 fax
kgipson@pilc.net

Jeremy Weis
Berkowitz Oliver
Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt LLP
2600 Grand Boulevard, Suite 1200
Kansas City, MO  64108
816-627-0311
816-561-7007 fax
jweis@bowse-law.com

REPORTED OPINIONS:

• Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Missouri Supreme Court is denied in Edwards v. Missouri, 127 S.Ct. 1375 (February 26, 2007).
   
• August 8, 2006 -- Missouri Supreme Court affirms denial of 29.15, SC 86895, Edwards v. State, 200 S.W.3d 509 (Mo. 2006), rehearing denied 9/2/2006.
   
• Conviction and sentence affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Edwards, 116 S.W.3d 511 (Mo. banc 2003), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1186 (2004).

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES:

• Court's denial of an instruction ordering the jury not to draw an adverse inference from the defendant's failure to testify during the penalty phase
   
• Voluntariness of confession made to police, which were elicited by the officers' threats that charges would be brought against the defendant's relatives
   
• Batson claims regarding the prosecution's proffered non-discriminatory reason for striking African-American panelists

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