MALLETT, JEROME
General InformationDOB: January 1, 1959
Race: African-American
Gender: Male
Crime and Trial
County of conviction: Schuyler (on change of venue from Perry County)
Number of counts: One
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Male
Date of crime: March 2, 1985
Date of sentencing: March 7, 1986
Date of execution: July 11, 2001
Legal status:
Trial Counsel:
Kenny Hulshof
Gary Robbins
Mary-Louise Moran
Last counsel of record:
Michael J. Gorla
720 Olive St., Suite 2301
St. Louis, MO 63101
314-621-1616
Bernard Edelman
8008 Carondelet Ave., Suite 301
Clayton, MO 63105
314-726-5588
Last judicial decision:
--Application for stay of execution and for writ of habeas corpus (filed under U.S. Supreme Court original jurisdiction) denied by In re Mallett, 533 U.S. 965 (2001).
Reported Opinions:
--Conviction and sentence affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Mallett, 732 S.W.2d 527 (Mo. banc), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 933 (1987).
--Circuit court's grant of post-conviction relief reversed by Mallett v. State, 769 S.W.2d 77 (Mo. banc 1989), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1009 (1990).
--Denial of habeas corpus affirmed by Mallett v. Bowersox, 160 F.3d 456 (8th Cir. 1998), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 853 (1999).
--Application for stay of execution and for writ of habeas corpus (filed under U.S. Supreme Court original jurisdiction) denied by In re Mallett, 533 U.S. 965 (2001).
Significant legal issues:
--trial court's change of venue to a county in which there were no African-American residents (the case involved a "black on white" crime)
--unconstitutional vagueness of the "depravity of mind" aggravating circumstance, the limiting construction of which was not submitted to the jury but only considered by the state supreme court
--trial judge's non-neutrality, given the fact that he sent a plaque to the state highway patrol in memory of the officer whom Mr. Amrine was charged with killing