STATE v. JACKSON

No. SC 92532.

384 S.W.3d 208 (2012)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff, v. Kirk JACKSON, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 18, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis R. Horwitz , Lou Horwitz LLC, St. Peters, for Jackson.

Breck K. Burges and Rebecca Shaffar , St. Charles County prosecutor's office, St. Charles, for the State.

Robert P. McCulloch , Clayton, for Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, which submitted a brief as a friend of the Court.


LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Kirk Jackson requests relief following the St. Charles County circuit court's setting of a $75,000 cash-only bond, arguing that the setting of a cash-only bond violates the requirement of article I, section 20 of the Missouri Constitution that "all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses."

The constitutional directive that persons be bailable by sufficient sureties does not require that only...

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