YOUNG, MOSE JR.
General Information
DOB: December 25, 1955
Race: African-American
Gender: Male
Crime and Trial
County of conviction: St. Louis City
Number of counts: Three
Race of victim: White/white/white
Gender of victim: Male/male/male
Date of crime: February 8, 1983
Date of sentencing: July 6, 1984
Date of execution: April 25, 2001
Legal status:
Trial Counsel:
Jack Walsh
Last counsel of record:
John W. Simon
P.O. Box 16005
Clayton, MO 63105
314-645-1776
Joseph Margulies
Margulies & Richman
2520 Park Ave., S.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-872-4900
Last judicial decision:
--Dissolving of stay of execution that had been entered in connection with Mr. Young's section 1983 suit against the attorney general's office. See Young v. Hayes, 266 F.3d 791 (8th Cir. 2001).
Reported Opinions:
--Conviction and sentence affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Young, 701 S.W.2d 429 (Mo. banc 1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1109 (1986).
--Denial of post-conviction relief affirmed by Young v. State, 770 S.W.2d 243 (Mo. banc 1989).
--Denial of habeas corpus affirmed by Young v. Bowersox, 161 F.3d 1159 (8th Cir. 1998), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 880 (1999).
--Stay of execution granted in connection with Mr. Young's § 1983 suit against the attorney general's office for interfering with the clemency process. See Young v. Hayes, 218 F.3d 850 (8th Cir.), motion to vacate stay denied, 530 U.S. 1285 (2000). Stay vacated as moot by Young v. Hayes, 266 F.3d 791 (8th Cir. 2001).
Significant legal issues:
--trial counsel's failure object to the prosecution's discriminatory use of peremptory challenges
--prosecutor's improper penalty phase closing argument
--ineffectiveness of state post-conviction motion counsel