Jackson County judge throws out state’s evidence, citing ‘a culture of discovery abuses’

Ten years’ worth of discovery violations committed by the Jackson County Prosecutors Office led a judge to throw out all of the state’s evidence against Richard Buchli, a Kansas City attorney facing re-trial in 2011 for allegedly killing his law partner.

Richard Armitage was found beaten to death in the office of Buchli &

Armitage in the Power & Light Building. The last call Armitage made

was at 2:01 a.m. on May 5, 2000. On July 30, 2002, Buchli was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

But that’s where the latest saga begins.