GLASS, TRAVIS

DOB: July 25, 1979
Race: White
Gender: Male

CRIME AND TRIAL

County of conviction: Boone (on change of venue from Callaway County)
Number of counts: One
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Female
Date of crime: May 25, 2001
Date of sentencing: November 21, 2002

TRIAL COUNSEL:

David Kenyon, Cynthia Dryden

LEGAL STATUS 

• State appeals the grant of relief on 29.15

• March 29, 2006- Judge Gary Oxenhandler in Boone County grants penalty phase relief in 29.15 proceeding.  SC87852 - Travis Glass, App/CR-Res v. State of Mo, Res/CR-App.  Respondent's brief due March 7, 2007.

CURRENT COUNSEL:

Melinda Kay Pendergraph
Office of the Public Defender
3402 Buttonwood
Columbia, MO  65201-3724

REPORTED OPINIONS:

• Conviction and sentence affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Glass, 136 S.W.3d 496 (Mo. banc 2004), petition for certiorari
  denied, Glass v. Missouri, 125 S.Ct. 869 (U.S. 2005)

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES:

• March 29, 2006- Judge Gary Oxenhandler in Boone County grants penalty phase relief in 29.15 proceeding.  SC87852 - Travis Glass, App/CR-Res v. State of Mo, Res/CR-App.  Respondent's brief due March 7, 2007.

• whether Mr. Glass was "in custody" during his first incriminating statement to the police, as well as during a subsequent written statement given at the police station
   
• trial court's exclusion of certain mitigating evidence as cumulative (specifically, a poem written by Mr. Glass as well as a family tree made by him)
   
• penalty phase admission of "bad acts" evidence of Mr. Glass walking into homes of other teen-age girls while uninvited (in addition to the victim's home)

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