GOODWIN, PAUL

GENERAL INFORMATION

DOB: November 12, 1966
Race: White
Gender: Male

CRIME AND TRIAL

County of conviction: St. Louis
Number of counts: One
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Female
Date of crime: March 1, 1998
Date of sentencing: December 2, 1999

TRIAL COUNSEL:

Terry Flanagan

LEGAL STATUS:

Current proceedings:

• Habeas Pending in The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Case No. 4:06-cv-00848-HEA (Autrey, J.).

Last judicial decision:

• Denial of post-conviction relief by Circuit Court of St. Louis County affirmed by Missouri Supreme Court May 2, 2006; rehearing denied May 30, 2006, Case No. SC86278. Goodwin v. State, 191 S.W.3d 20 (Mo.banc 2006)

CURRENT COUNSEL:

Melinda Pendergraph
Office of the Public Defender
3402 Buttonwood
Columbia, MO  65201
573-882-9855

REPORTED OPINIONS:

• Denial of post-conviction relief by Circuit Court of St. Louis County affirmed by Missouri Supreme Court May 2, 2006; rehearing denied May 30, 2006, Case No. SC86278. Goodwin v. State, 191 S.W.3d 20 (Mo.banc 2006)
   
• Goodwin v. State, 191 S.W.3d 20 (Mo.banc 2006) (Denial of post-conviction relief by Circuit Court of St. Louis County affirmed by Missouri Supreme Court).
   
• Conviction and sentence affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Goodwin, 43 S.W.3d 805 (Mo. banc), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 902 (2001).

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES:

• Propriety of state's cross-examination of defendant's psychological expert through questions regarding defendant's previous criminal acts, as well as defendant's alleged unhappiness at being educated in a primarily African-American school
   
• State's failure to disclose fact that witness never heard Goodwin threaten victim months before the crime as alleged at trial.
   

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