State v. Kluck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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1. “... [Movant] lived in Joplin with his girlfriend, Kelly Drury, and her children, Tiffany and Justin. On the evening of January 20, 1996, Ms. Drury was visiting with some iriends in the kitchen of her home when she decided to go to the grocery store to buy some liquor. Ms. Drury went into the bedroom, where [Movant] was sleeping, and got some money out of [Movant’s] coat. Around 11:00 P.M. she, her friends, and Tiffany went to the grocery store. [Movant] woke up and came into the living room shortly after they returned from the store. Ms. Drury’s friends left when [Movant], who apparently walked with crutches, slammed them on the floor. [Movant] then entered the kitchen, and began yelling at Ms. Drury, asking her where his money was. After a thirty-minute argument over the money, [Movant] hit Ms. Drury in the head with a liquor bottle, causing her head to bleed. Ms. Drury’s children ran out of the house, but Tiffany went back inside to help her mother bandage her head. Tiffany had gone back outside and was talking to Justin when the children looked in a window and saw [Movant] come out of the bedroom with a gun in his hand. The children then went to the home of a neighbor, John Gabany, and called their father requesting that he pick them up. When Tiffany and Justin later went back home to get their things, Tiffany saw [Movant] sitting on a bed with a gun next to him. Later that morning, [Movant] went to Mr. Gabany’s house, told him that Ms. Drury had shot herself, and asked hi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kluck v. State