Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District — Matthew P. Hamner retention
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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,
Matthew P. Hamner
Nonpartisan · Incumbent · Official site
Judge Matthew P. Hamner joined the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, in 2024. He was elected an associate circuit judge in Camden County in 2014 and was presiding judge of the 26th Circuit.
Where Matthew P. Hamner stands, based on their records
Supports
Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
Signed a letter asking Camden County commissioners to allocate opioid settlement money to its established veterans, drug and drunken-driving treatment courts; the commission later approved the allocation.
December 20, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: camdencountymo.gov
Track record — General
General · 12 records
Wrote an appellate opinion affirming a witness-tampering conviction after finding sufficient evidence that a defendant tried to persuade a witness to withhold testimony.
July 16, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion vacating a stalking protective order because the record lacked sufficient evidence of the statutory requirement of alarm.
January 30, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion upholding denial of expungement of stalking and harassment charges after the trial court found continuing conduct that posed a public-safety concern.
December 4, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion ordering a hearing on two postconviction claims because the record did not conclusively disprove them; upheld denial of a third claim.
November 18, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an appellate opinion upholding denial of permanent disability benefits after finding an earlier shoulder injury did not meet the statutory threshold for Missouri’s Second Injury Fund.
March 20, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Presided over a trial that convicted Christopher English of first-degree murder, armed criminal action and abandoning a corpse; the appeals court affirmed.
July 30, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Denied a nursing facility’s request to force a resident into arbitration when her husband had signed the agreement without proof he could act for her; the appeals court affirmed.
August 30, 2023
Source: law.justia.com
Sat as a special appellate judge on a case upholding suspension of a driver’s license after a drunken-driving arrest.
August 15, 2023
Source: law.justia.com
Denied postconviction relief to a defendant sentenced to death for two murders; the Missouri Supreme Court upheld the findings and judgment.
June 1, 2021
Source: law.justia.com
As a Camden County associate circuit judge, dismissed a petition for limited driving privileges after a third drunken-driving conviction; the appeals court affirmed.
September 22, 2016
Source: law.justia.com
Represented two respondents in a Camden County property-boundary appeal; the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld the judgments in their favor.
March 27, 2009
Source: law.justia.com
Represented a New York law firm in a Kansas appeal over whether it could be sued there; the appeals court upheld Kansas courts’ authority to hear the case.
February 18, 2005
Source: caselaw.findlaw.com
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