FILE - This June 2, 2011 file photo shows Mark Woodworth during hearing in Columbia, Mo. A Missouri judge ordered Woodworth freed on bond Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 while he awaits his third trial in the 1990 fatal shooting of a neighbor in her rural Missouri home. Woodworth, 38, has been serving a life sentence in the fatal shooting of Cathy Robertson. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall, File)
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FILE - This June 2, 2011 file photo shows Mark Woodworth during hearing in Columbia, Mo. A Missouri judge ordered Woodworth freed on bond Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 while he awaits his third trial in the 1990 fatal shooting of a neighbor in her rural Missouri home. Woodworth, 38, has been serving a life sentence in the fatal shooting of Cathy Robertson. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall, File)
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Linda Stilwell was last seen at Luna Park in 1968.
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Ricky Cox, an attorney for Mississippi Power argues before the Mississippi Supreme Court, that it is his client's position the 2008's Baseload Act , that allows utilities to raise rates for power plants before they start making electricity, is constitutional, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 in Jackson, Miss. At the heart of the hearing is whether Mississippi Power can raise rates to pay for the $3 billion-plus Kemper County Coal Plant while under construction. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Justice Randy Pierce questions Ricky Cox, an attorney for Mississippi Power regarding their contention that the 2008's Baseload Act allows utilities to raise rates for power plants before they start making electricity, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 in Jackson, Miss. At the heart of the hearing is whether Mississippi Power can raise rates to pay for the $3 billion-plus Kemper County Coal Plant while under construction. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SECOND REFERENCE TO SABBATELLA INSTEAD OF SABATELLA ** Martin Sabbatella, left, head of the government media regulation body, is surrounded by reporters outside the newspaper office of Grupo Clarin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Sabbatella said Monday that the government will make the conglomerate and other companies comply with the law, which bars any company from owning too many different media properties. The law could require Grupo Clarin to sell off broadcast licenses as well as its majority stake in Cablevision, the cable TV network that has become the company's cash cow. (AP Photo/Daniel Dabove,Telam)
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** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SECOND REFERENCE TO SABBATELLA INSTEAD OF SABATELLA ** Martin Sabbatella, center, head of the government media regulation body, Federal Authority on Audiovisual Communication Services (AFSCA) and Sergio Surano, right, director of the AFSCA legal department, listen as Grupo Clarin's lawyer Damian Cassino, left, speaks during a meeting, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Sabbatella said Monday that the government will make the conglomerate and other companies comply with the law, which bars any company from owning too many different media properties. The law could require Grupo Clarin to sell off broadcast licenses as well as its majority stake in Cablevision, the cable TV network that has become the company's cash cow. (AP Photo/Daniel Dabove,Telam)
High court to review Kansas sheriff's killing
WASHINGTON (
AP) — The
Supreme Court has agreed to consider reinstating the conviction and death sentence of a man who said he was high on meth when he killed a Kansas sheriff.
The justices on Monday said they will review a state Supreme Court ruling that granted a new trial to Scott Cheever, who admitted to shooting Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels.
The Kansas court said Cheever's rights were violated during his trial because a psychiatrist was allowed to testify about Cheever's psychological records without his consent.
Samuels' death prompted changes in the Kansas criminal code to make it more difficult to purchase the ingredients used in making meth.
The case will be argued in the fall.
The case is Kansas v. Cheever, 12-609.
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