Supreme Court of Missouri / Feb 24, 2026
State of Missouri, Respondent, vs. James Willis Peters, Appellant.
Citation: City of Joplin v. Marston, 346 S.W.3d 340
James Willis Peters appealed his conviction for driving while intoxicated as a chronic offender, challenging whether the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that all four of his prior offenses were intoxication-related traffic offenses. The court found the state failed to sufficiently prove his 2002 offense was an IRTO and therefore vacated the judgment and remanded for resentencing.