DAVID barnett

Current Proceedings: Resentenced to life without parole on March 15, 2019, after the 8th Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of habeas relief on September 2018.

Case Number: 4:03-cv-00614-ERW

Judge: Unknown

Demographic Information: White Male

Current Counsel:

Elizabeth Carlyle 6320 Brookside Plaza #516 Kansas City, MO 64113 816.525.6540 (tel.) email: elizabeth@carlyle-law.com

Richard H. Sindel Sindel, Sindel & Noble 8000 Maryland Avenue, Suite 350 Clayton, MO 63105 314.731.6040 (tel.) email: rsindel@sindellaw.com

Paula Kay Harms Office of the Federal Public Defender 850 West Adams Street, Suite 201 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602.382.2816 (tel.) email: Paula_Harms@fd.org

Legal Status: Resentenced to life without parole on March 15, 2019, after the 8th Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of habeas relief on September 2018.

Significant Legal Issues:

  • Trial counsel’s failure to investigate, develop, and present relevant mitigating evidence, including evidence about Mr. Barnett’s biological father, mother, and other witnesses.

  • Ineffective post-conviction counsel’s failure to properly assert the penalty-phase IAC claims, as “cause” to excuse the resulting procedural default under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012).

  • Relevance of victims’ children’s wishes that Mr. Barnett not receive the death penalty, in light of the children’s religious beliefs —Sufficiency of prosecution’s purported gender-neutral reasons for striking female venirepersons.

Last Judicial Decision Related to Conviction or Sentence:

  • Barnett v. Roper, 904 F.3d 623 (8th Cir. 2018) (affirming habeas relief)

  • Barnett v. Roper 2015 WL 13662176 (EDMO 2015) (granting habeas)

  • Barnett 2016 WL 278861 (EDMO 2016) (denying govt 59e)

Reported Opinions:

  • Habeas relief affirmed. Barnett v. Roper, 904 F.3d 623 (8th Cir. 2018).

  • Rule 59(e) denied. Barnett v. Roper, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7539 (E.D. Mo. Jan. 22, 2016).

  • Rule 60(b) motion granted, and evidentiary hearing granted, by Barnett v. Roper, 941 F. Supp. 2d 1099 (E.D. Mo. 2013), on penalty phase IAC claims

  • Habeas corpus denied by Barnett v. Roper, No. 4:03-CV-614-ERW, 2006 WL 2475036 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 24, 2006), aff’d, 541 F.3d 804 (8th Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 558 U.S. 830 (2009)

  • Denial of post-conviction relief affirmed by Barnett v. State, 103 S.W.3d 765 (Mo.), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 862 (2003)

  • Convictions and sentences affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Barnett, 980 S.W.2d 297 (Mo. 1998), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 1161 (1999).

Prior Counsel:

  • John Tucci

  • Antonio Manansala

Conviction County: St. Louis County

Counts: 2

Victim Demographic:

  • White Male (life)

  • White Female (death)

Crime Date: 02/04/1996

Sentencing Date: 05/02/1997

Trial Counsel:

  • Ellen Blau

  • Curtis Cox

Trial Judge: Larry Kendrick

Trial Prosecutor: Robert Lasater