(AP) – A former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice will sort out
whether the state accessed jailhouse visitor logs and telephone recordings to
get defense strategy of a man accused in the deaths of two sisters forced off an
abandoned Mississippi River bridge.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Mike Wolff has been appointed special
master in Reginald Clemons’ January death penalty retrial. Wolff will determine
if the state’s attorney general’s office violated attorney-client privilege or
learned identities of defense expert witnesses when it subpoenaed the jail logs
and recordings of Clemons’ phone calls at the jail.
whether the state accessed jailhouse visitor logs and telephone recordings to
get defense strategy of a man accused in the deaths of two sisters forced off an
abandoned Mississippi River bridge.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Mike Wolff has been appointed special
master in Reginald Clemons’ January death penalty retrial. Wolff will determine
if the state’s attorney general’s office violated attorney-client privilege or
learned identities of defense expert witnesses when it subpoenaed the jail logs
and recordings of Clemons’ phone calls at the jail.
Clemons spent 22 years on death row before a judge last year granted a
retrial.
Clemons was among four men convicted in the 1991 deaths of 20-year-old Julie
Kerry and her 19-year-old sister, Robin.
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