Missouri judge rejects inmate claims that sentencing decision was illegal

Missouri judge rejects inmate claims that sentencing decision was illegal

Deandra Buchanan, an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center serving a first degree murder sentence for killing his girlfriend and two others in 2000 (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent).A Missouri man serving life without parole on Monday lost a bid to reopen his criminal case for an in-person resentencing he claims he was unconstitutionally denied. Deandra Buchanan, convicted in Boone County of three counts of first-degree in 2002, was …