KREUTZER, PAUL
General Information
DOB: February 22, 1972
Race: White
Gender: Male
Crime and Trial
County of conviction: Callaway (on transfer from Pike)
Number of counts: One
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Female
Date of crime: September 2, 1992
Date of sentencing: June 10, 1994
Date of execution: April 4, 2002
Legal status:
Trial Counsel:
Beth Ann Davis and Rick Scholz
Last counsel of record:
Watson and Dameron, LLP
2500 Holmes
Kansas City, MO 64108
816-474-3350
Patrick W. Peters
405 E. 13th St., Griffith Building
Kansas City, MO 64106
816-221-4101
Last judicial decision:
--Denial of certiorari following Eighth Circuit's affirmance of denial of habeas. See Kreutzer v. Bowersox, 231 F.3d 460 (8th Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 122 S. Ct. 145 (U.S. Oct. 1, 2001).
Reported Opinions:
--Denial of habeas affirmed by Kreutzer v. Bowersox, 231 F.3d 460 (8th Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 122 S. Ct. 145 (2001).
--Conviction, sentence and denial of post-conviction relief affirmed by State v. Kreutzer, 928 S.W.2d 854 (Mo. banc 1996), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 1083 (1997)
Significant legal issues:
--Availability of equitable tolling to extend one-year limitation period for filing federal petition, when federal district court granted extension beyond the one-year limit
--exclusion for cause of equivocating Witherspoon veniremembers
--trial counsel's failure to obtain and present evidence from Arkansas regarding defendant's removal from his parents' home and extent of abuse he suffered as a child