By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
A woman that a court has found was wrongly convicted of a St.
Joseph murder in 1980 has taken yet another step toward freedom.
The Western Missouri Court of Appeals has upheld a lower
court’s ruling that Sandra Hemme was wrongly convicted in the death of Patricia
Jeschke, a library worker at the St. Joseph State Hospital.
Hemme was released from the Chillicothe women’s prison in July
after Livingston County Circuit Judge Ryan Horsman ordered Hemme be released or
retried. Attorney General Andrew Bailey objected and sought to block her
release.
Horsman ruled evidence in the case now points to a discredited
former St. Joseph police officer, the late Michael Holman.
Buchanan County Prosecutor Michelle Davidson has 10 days to
decide whether to retry Hemme or dismiss the case.
Hemme spent 43 years in prison.
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