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RSMo 557.045effective 28 Aug 2021

Ineligibility for probation, SIS, SES, or conditional release, certain offenses

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If someone is found guilty of certain serious crimes, they cannot get probation, a suspended sentence, or early conditional release — they must go to prison. Those crimes include second degree murder, or a dangerous felony committed by someone with a prior serious felony conviction, or a dangerous felony involving a deadly weapon, or a dangerous felony where the victim was a police officer, firefighter, or emergency worker on the job.

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557.045. Ineligibility for , SIS, SES, or , certain offenses. — No person of, or guilty to, the following offenses shall be eligible for probation, , or conditional release, and shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment (1) of 2 of section 557.011:

(1) Second degree murder when a person causes the death of another person or, with the purpose of causing to another person, causes the death of another person, as defined in subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 565.021;

(2) Any , as the term is defined in section 556.061, where the person has been previously found guilty of a or a dangerous felony;

(3) Any dangerous felony, as the term is defined in section 556.061, where the of the involves the use of a , as that term is defined in section 556.061; or

(4) Any dangerous felony, as the term is defined in section 556.061, where the victim is a , firefighter, or an emergency while in the performance of his or her duties.

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(L. 2020 S.B. 600, A.L. 2021 S.B. 26)

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