Missouri Revised Statutes

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 570.025 (2026)

Robbery in the second degree

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  570.025.  Robbery in the second degree — penalty. — 1.  A person commits the offense of robbery in the second degree if he or she forcibly steals property and in the course thereof causes physical injury to another person.

  2.  The offense of robbery in the second degree is a class B felony.

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(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Transferred 2014; formerly 569.030; Effective 1-01-17

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases (5 in the last 5 years), 2019–2025 · leading case: United States v. Tracy Parker, 929 F.3d 940 (8th Cir. 2019).
United States v. Tracy Parker, 929 F.3d 940 (8th Cir. 2019). “1 (2006) (current version at Mo. Rev. Stat. § 570.025 ). Last year, we held that Missouri second-degree robbery is a "violent felony" for purposes of applying the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") because it "requires the use or threatened use of violent force.”
Timis Cobbins v. Missouri Dep't of Corr. (Mo. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 24× “030 [the criminal statute Cobbins was convicted of] to Section 570.025 [the current criminal statute describing the elements of second-degree robbery].”
State of Missouri v. John R. Wright (Mo. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 9× “5 Defendant asserts that the trial court doing so violated his Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy because third-degree assault is a lesser-included offense of second-degree robbery, as third-degree assault is encompassed within the injury element of second-degree…”
United States v. Kevin Conner (8th Cir. 2019). “See Mo. Rev. Stat. § 570.025 (1). Conner was convicted of Missouri second-degree robbery in 2014.”
United States v. Cecil Robinson (8th Cir. 2024). “030 (2013) (now codified at Mo. Rev. Stat. § 570.025 ), and two for unlawful use of a weapon, see Mo.”
State of Missouri v. Lorandis M. Phillips (Mo. Ct. App. 2023). “030 had been transferred to § 570.025 as part of the revision and reorganization of Missouri’s Criminal Code effective January 1, 2017.”
State of Missouri, Plaintiff-respondent v. Christopher Stephens Ford (Mo. Ct. App. 2022). “1 See sections 570.025 and 575.150. A jury found Defendant guilty as charged, and the circuit court sentenced him as a prior felony offender and persistent misdemeanor offender to serve consecutive sentences of fifteen years imprisonment on the robbery conviction and four years…”
Lester A. Stone v. Missouri Bd. of Prob. & Parole (Mo. Ct. App. 2025). “030, RSMo 2000, was not contained in the new version of second-degree robbery, § 570.025, identified in § 558.019.2 because the elements differed).”
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