A Missouri woman who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a murder her supporters believe she did not commit will get a court hearing that could lead to her release.
The Missouri attorney general's office has agreed to an evidentiary hearing for Sandra Hemme, 63, who was convicted of murder in the Nov. 12, 1980, killing of Patricia Jeschke, a library worker in St. Joseph, The Kansas City StarLawyers for the Innocence Project filed a petition in February seeking to exonerate and free Hemme, who was a patient at a psychiatric hospital when she gave conflicting statements about the murder to investigators.
Two weeks after Jeschke's nude body was found on the floor of her apartment in eastern St. Joseph, Hemme told authorities she thought she stabbed the victim with a knife but then added"I don't know. I don't know," according to her attorneys. The Innocence Project says state officials withheld evidence during the trial that would have implicated a 22-year-old St. Joseph police officer who was investigated for insurance fraud and burglaries and later spent time in prison in Missouri and Nebraska. He died in 2015.the Innocence Project.
The Missouri attorney general's office, currently held by Republican Andrew Bailey, has a long history of opposing wrongful conviction motions. Bailey's office did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
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