GUILTY MO - Sgt. Dewayne Graham, 37, fatally shot, Carter County, 20 March 2005

[Kathee]

Testimony To Begin In Capital Murder Trial Of Alleged Cop Killer:












A jury has been selected and testimony will began today in the capital murder trial of a West Plains man accused of killing a lawman.
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It was four years ago that Lance Shockley allegedly gunned down Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Sergeant Carl DeWayne Graham Jr. in the driveway of his home as he returned home from work.

Prhttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KAZyFMsa-...4/jLpJbsZ078I/s1600-h/Carl+Dewayne+Graham.jpgosecutors say that Shockley killed Graham because the trooper was investigating a fatal car crash that killed the fiancee of Shockley's sister-in-law in which he was the driver, and he believed an arrest was imminent.

A jury was selected in Carter County and imported to Howell County for the trial.



http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/2009/03/testimony-to-begin-in-capital-murder.html

 

[Kathee]

BREAKING NEWS......SHOCKLEY FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING HIGHWAY PATROL TROOPER





It took a jury a little over three hours to come back with a guilty verdict in the capital murder trial of Lance Shockley.

Prosecutors proved that Shockley, 32, of Van Buren, gunned down Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr., in the driveway of his Van Buren home on March 20, 2005, because he was investigating a fatal car crash in which Shockley was the driver.

http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/2009/03/breaking-newsshockley-found-guilty-of.html

 

[OkieGranny]

From May 2009:

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1541902.html

After denying a Carter County man's request for a new trial Friday afternoon, a judge sentenced him to death for gunning down a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a warrant for the execution of Lance Shockley, who recently exhausted his state and federal appeals and was convicted of the 2005 murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr.

Shockley has denied his involvement in Graham’s death, citing the lack of physical evidence or eyewitnesses. His attorneys have tried unsuccessfully to get evidence from the crime scene tested for DNA and have argued the police failed to investigate other possible suspects.

“Shockley’s defense at trial was that he was not the one who killed Sgt. Graham,” his attorney wrote in a brief last month. “Shockley has never wavered in that position.”

The Missouri Supreme Court, responding to the defense’s argument that the death penalty was excessive or disproportionate punishment for a case relying on circumstantial proof, said courts have previously upheld death sentences in cases hinging on strong circumstantial evidence and here, “the circumstantial evidence was strong.”

Execution date set for man sentenced to die by a Missouri judge over 2005 murder • Missouri Independent

A Missouri man was sentenced to death by a trial judge in 2009 despite a jury deadlocking on whether he should be executed.

missouriindependent.com