Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District / Date unavailable
State of Missouri, ex rel., Andrew Bailey, Relator, vs. The Honorable Terry Tschannen, Circuit Judge, Respondent.
The Attorney General filed a petition for a writ of prohibition to prevent the trial court from terminating probationer Katrina Kraus's probation based on earned compliance credits (ECCs). Kraus, convicted of statutory rape and sodomy, was found eligible for ECCs by the trial court, which attempted to reconcile conflicting subsections of Section 217.703 RSMo. The appellate court made the preliminary order of prohibition permanent, holding that Section 217.703.1(2) categorically makes offenders convicted of these crimes ineligible for ECCs, and the trial court exceeded its authority by ruling otherwise.