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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Darryl BURTON, Appellant, v. Stephen HOBBS, Respondent.
    No. ED 103664
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, DIVISION TWO.
    FILED: September 13, 2016
    Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied October 26, 2016
    Application for Transfer Denied February 28, 2017
    Brian F. McCallister, Kansas City, MO, David M. Zevan, St. Louis, MO, Mike Ka-novitz, Roshna Bala Keen, Chicago, IL, for Appellant.
    Chris Koster, Denise McElvein, St. Louis, MO, for Respondent.
    Before Sherri B. Sullivan, P.J., Roy L. Richter, J., and Colleen Dolan, J.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM

Darryl Burton (“Burton”) filed a state petition of habeas corpus in Cole County Circuit Court in 2008 regarding his conviction of capital murder and armed criminal action 23 years earlier. The petition was granted due to the prosecution’s failure to disclose the criminal record of one of its two eyewitnesses, Claudex Simmons (“Simmons”). Though Burton was entitled to a new trial, the Circuit Attorney of the City of St. Louis chose not to retry the case. Upon his release, Burton filed a claim against Detective Stephen Hobbs (“Hobbs”) alleging malicious prosecution. The trial court entered summary judgment in favor of Hobbs finding Burton would be unable to prove the element of malice. Burton appeals from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Hobbs. We affirm.

We have reviewed the briefs of the parties and the record on appeal and find no error of law. No jurisprudential purpose would be served by a written opinion. However, the parties have been furnished with a memorandum for their information only, setting forth the facts and reasons for this order.

The judgment is affirmed pursuant to Rule 84.16(b).