Murderer From Missouri Appealing Death Sentence

CREATED Oct. 4, 2012

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JEFFERSON CITY,  Mo.  (AP)  - Lawyers  for a northwest Missouri man are set to argue before the state supreme court today as they try to appeal his murder conviction for a neighbor's 1990 death.

Mark Woodworth has been convicted twice in the case and his lawyers say he should have yet a third trial.

He was 16 years old when Cathy Robertson was shot while sleeping in her rural home near Chillicothe.