Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District — Angela Turner Quigless retention
Source: enr.sos.mo.gov
What does this office do?
- Deciding what state laws and the state constitution mean
- Setting rulings that lower state courts must follow
- Deciding major criminal and civil cases
Affects: Public Safety and Crime Control, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Gun Control,
Angela Turner Quigless
Nonpartisan · Incumbent · Official site
Judge Angela Turner Quigless serves on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and was its chief judge in 2014 and 2015. She was a St. Louis circuit judge and worked in the U.S. attorney's office.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 11 records
Wrote an appellate opinion allowing burglary-case evidence from a bedroom search after finding that police reasonably relied on the homeowner’s consent; reversed the lower court’s suppression order.
April 1, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion setting aside ten life sentences that exceeded the legal maximum while affirming all 16 convictions and the remaining six life sentences; ordered resentencing on the ten counts.
July 30, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
As a member of Missouri’s Judicial Redistricting Commission, approved and filed a map of 34 state Senate districts based on the 2020 census.
March 15, 2022
Source: oa.mo.gov
Wrote an appellate opinion overturning a city paramedic’s 15-day suspension because the civil service process violated her due process rights; ordered removal of the suspension and calculation of back pay.
September 14, 2021
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion in a vehicle-debt case enforcing the parties’ agreement to have an arbitrator decide whether their dispute had to be arbitrated.
June 16, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Authored an appellate opinion favoring exclusion of a defendant’s juvenile records from a murder trial and transferred the unresolved legal question to the Missouri Supreme Court; the Supreme Court later affirmed the conviction.
June 20, 2017
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion reinstating a school aide’s negligence claims against a student’s parents after alleged prior violent behavior; the decision allowed the claims to proceed without deciding liability.
April 15, 2014
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion holding that a lawyer, rather than a former client, had to pay to copy the client’s case file when returning it.
October 1, 2013
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion directing a lower court to reinstate the suspension of a driver’s personal and commercial driving privileges after a drunken-driving arrest.
September 11, 2012
Source: law.justia.com
Presided over a bench trial that convicted Arlee Hayes of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death; the appeals court affirmed the judgment.
September 6, 2011
Source: law.justia.com
Presided over a felony drug-trafficking jury trial as an associate circuit judge; the appeals court upheld the conviction and confirmed she had authority to hear the case.
April 3, 2001
Source: law.justia.com
Track record — Legal Competence
Legal Competence · 1 favorable
Received a 2014 retention recommendation from Missouri’s Appellate Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee, which found her written opinions consistent with law and precedent.
September 24, 2014Favorable on Legal Competence
Source: yourmissourijudges.org
Source: sos.mo.gov