State of Missouri v. Marcellus Williams

Summary

The court overruled Williams's motion seeking to withdraw the warrant setting his execution date. It held that the prosecutor's pending statutory motion to vacate the conviction and sentence was not the defendant's state postconviction motion and therefore did not make the execution-date order premature under Rule 30.30(c). The court further stated that such a prosecutorial motion does not automatically require a stay; a stay must satisfy the established equitable factors.