MISSOURI
KSDK
created: 6/1/2005 9:16:40 PM
updated: 6/2/2005 7:33:55 AM
(KSDK) -- James Beine, a former priest, whose conviction for sexual molestation of two young boys was overturned, is waiting to be freed from a Missouri prison.
In April, the Missouri Supreme Court said Beine was wrongly convicted on a too broad law, and ordered his release.
Now, the prison system is waiting for the paperwork that is Beine's ticket to freedom. The paperwork has been cut and mailed from Jefferson City, the offices of the Missouri Supreme Court.
So far, the order hasn't arrived in St. Louis, so Beine sits.