Dale Helmig’s going home for Christmas, and boy, is Chris Koster pissed

Dale Helmig is home for the holidays. On Monday, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, sustained a motion filed by Helmig’s attorneys to release Helmig on bond. Helmig was serving a life sentence at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri, for his mother’s murder. Last month, a judge in DeKalb County granted Helmig habeus corpus relief, finding that “no credible evidence remains from the first trial

to support the conviction.”

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed an appeal, and hoped to keep Helmig in custody until the overturning of his conviction undergoes further review. The court of appeals replied: Nah.