STOREY, WALTER TIMOTHY

DOB: February 20, 1967
Race: White
Gender: Male

CRIME AND TRIAL

County of conviction: St. Charles
Number of counts: 1
Race of victim: White
Gender of victim: Female
Date of crime: February 2, 1990
Date of sentencing: November 26, 1991 (initial sentencing);
July 10, 1997 (death sentence re-imposed after reversal of first death sentence);
December 17, 1999 (death sentence re-imposed after reversal of second death sentence)

TRIAL COUNSEL:

David Kenyon and Dorothy Hirzy (first sentencing)
Ellen Blau (second sentencing)
David Kenyon (third sentencing)

LEGAL STATUS:

Current proceedings:

• Federal habeas pending before U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, Case No. 4:05-cv-02073-JCH.

Last judicial decision:

• Affirmance of circuit court's denial of post-conviction relief.  Storey v. State, 175 S.W.3d 116 (Mo. 2005), reh'g denied 11/22/05, Missouri Supreme Court, Case No. SC85980.

CURRENT COUNSEL:

William J. Swift
Office of the Public Defender
3402 Buttonwood
Columbia, MO 65201
571-882-9855

REPORTED OPINIONS:

• Affirmance of circuit court's denial of post-conviction relief.  Storey v. State, 175 S.W.3d 116 (Mo. 2005)
   
• Conviction and sentence (following re-sentencing) affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Storey, 40 S.W.3d 898 (Mo. banc), cert. denied, 122 S. Ct. 272 (U.S. Oct. 1, 2001).
   
• Death sentence reversed and remanded after remand and re-imposition of death sentence. See State v. Storey, 986 S.W.2d 462 (Mo. banc), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 895 (1999).
   
• Conviction affirmed, sentence reversed by State v. Storey, 901 S.W.2d 886 (Mo. banc 1995).

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES:

• Exclusion of equivocating Witherspoon venirepersons
   
• State's untimely disclosure of victim impact witnesses

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