O.K. A good result, but does this strike anyone else as odd?
Show up on Thursday. The State still doesn't have their witness. So, it would seem in the normal world, the State would have to dismiss.
Ah . . . but it's Jackson County, Missouri. The State would dismiss and refile the same case and, presumably, wait another 2 years and two weeks to find their witness and, if they didn't, just dismiss and refile again. In this insane system, you can be kept in jail forever by the State dismissing and refiling the same case.
In any event, plead to 10 years on voluntary, and client got two pending robbery first degree cases reduced to robbery second and 10 years, concurrent.
Good result, but it seems odd pleading guilty when the State doesn't have their necessary, sole witness.
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