Mark Anthony Gill

Current Proceedings: None.

Case Number: 12BA-CR03801

Judge: Robert Lawrence Koffman

Defendant’s Demographic Information: Black Male

Current Counsel:

Patrick J. Berrigan & Thomas J. Jacquinot Office of the Public Defender 920 Main Street, Suite 500 Kansas City, Missouri 64105 816-889-7699 (tel.) emails: patrick.berrigan@mspd.mo.gov; tom.jacquinot@mspd.mo.gov

Legal Status: Mr. Gill resentenced to life without the possibility of parole on 06/26/2017.

Significant Legal Issues:

  • Relative culpability of Mr. Gill and his co-defendant, and resulting language of verdict- directing instructions on first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and accomplice liability

  • New penalty phase trial granted based on initial trial counsels’ ineffectiveness in failing to discover and present child pornography, bestiality content, and sexually explicit instant message conversations on the victim’s computer

Last Judicial Decision Related to Conviction or Sentence: Guilty plea entered and resentenced to life without parole

Reported Opinions:

  • Denial of post-conviction relief reversed in part, and new penalty phase trial granted, by Missouri Supreme Court in Gill v. State, 300 S.W.3d 225 (Mo. 2009), cert. denied, 131 S. CT. 141 (2010)

  • Conviction and sentence affirmed on direct appeal by State v. Gill, 167 S.W.3d 184 (Mo. 2005), cert. denied, 546 U.S. 1140 (2006)

Prior Counsel:

  • Loyce Ann Rhodes Hamilton

  • Robert Winthrop Lundt

  • William Swift

Conviction County: New Madrid

Counts: 1

Victim Demographic: White Male

Crime Date: 07/07/2002

Sentencing Date: 04/04/2004

Trial Counsel: Sharon Turlington and David Kenyon (first trial)

Trial Judge: Fred Copeland

Trial Prosecutor: Morley Swingle