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After 19 years, Keith Carnes’ conviction re-evaluated by Missouri Supreme Court
May 17, 2021
In 2014,
The Pitch shared the story of Latahra Smith and her work advocating the innocence of Keith Carnes a former drug dealer who was convicted of murdering Larry White, a rival drug dealer in 2003.
Since Carnes was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in 2006, more evidence has been found causing further questions to be raised regarding Carnes’ innocence.
Carnes team first filed an appeal in the 43rd Judicial Circuit Court in Cameron, DeKalb County, where Carnes was incarcerated at the time. After losing that, they refiled the same petition in the court of appeals in Kansas City then in the Missouri Supreme Court after that loss.
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Lawyers of the Year: Charles A. Weiss, Stephen R. Snodgrass And Jonathan B. Potts, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Charles A. Weiss, Stephen R. Snodgrass And Jonathan B. Potts
What are lawyers to make of the story of Donald Nash?
On the one hand, it is the kind of case for which people go to law school. A group of dedicated attorneys, working pro bono, undertakes a years-long effort to free an unjustly convicted man, winning key victories in the state’s highest court and finally securing his release from prison.
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“We are confident, I say, and willing rather be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8 KJV
Harlan “Gene” Eugene Nash passed away on Sunday, January 3, 2021. Born in Taylorville, IL on September 22, 1927 to Orrin S. and Mary Nelle (Hanauer) Nash. On June 8, 1984 he married Sue Haycraft in Springfield, IL.
He was a graduate of Edinburgh High School and served in the United States Army Air Force during WWII. He was a graduate of Shurtleff College and received his Master’s degree from the University of Illinois, with a Specialist Certificate in Education from SIUE. He taught school in Edinburg and Girard, IL and Wood River-Hartford School District #15 where he became principal of Woodrow Wilson School. He was Superintendent of School District #15 for 15 years before he retired in 1984. He was involved in the Wood River Township Kiwanis Club, Wood River Rotary Club and the Gateway East Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. After he