575.220. Failure to return to confinement — penalties. — 1. A person commits the offense of failure to return to confinement if, while serving a sentence for any offense under a work-release program, or while under sentence of any offense to serve a term of confinement which is not continuous, or while serving any other type of sentence for any offense wherein he or she is temporarily permitted to go at large without guard, he or she purposely fails to return to confinement when he or she is required to do so.
2. This section does not apply to persons who are free on bond, bail or recognizance, personal or otherwise, nor to persons who are on probation or parole, temporary or otherwise.
3. The offense of failure to return to confinement is a class C misdemeanor unless:
(1) The sentence being served is one of confinement in a county or private jail on conviction of a felony, in which case it is a class A misdemeanor; or
(2) The sentence being served is to the Missouri department of corrections, in which case it is a class E felony.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
9
cases, 1992–2010 · leading case:
State v. Moore, 303 S.W.3d 515 (Mo. 2010).
State v. Moore, 303 S.W.3d 515 (Mo. 2010).
· cites it 30× “Moore did not return to jail when ordered, *518 and he was charged with and convicted by a jury of the class D felony of failure to return to confinement, pursuant to section 575.220. 1 He appeals his conviction.”
State v. Sanning, 271 S.W.3d 56 (Mo. Ct. App. 2008).
· cites it 4× “Sanning (Defendant) appeals from a judgment of conviction claiming that the State failed to present sufficient evidence to make a submissible case on the charge of failure to appear for confinement, in violation of Section 575.220 1 . However, because Defendant voluntarily,…”
State v. Douglas, 835 S.W.2d 383 (Mo. Ct. App. 1992).
· cites it 3× “Louis, State of Missouri, charge that the defendant, in violation of Section 575.220, RSMo, committed the class D felony of *385 failure to return to confinement, punishable upon conviction under Sections 558.”
State v. Mobley, 267 S.W.3d 776 (Mo. Ct. App. 2008).
· cites it 4× “§ 575.220. 1 Defendant was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for each count.”
Davis v. State, 829 S.W.2d 610 (Mo. Ct. App. 1992).
“On February 4, 1991, movant pled guilty to failure to return to confinement, RSMo § 575.220 (1986). Movant was sentenced to two additional years with this sentence to run consecutive to movant’s prior convictions.”
State v. Dailey, 21 S.W.3d 113 (Mo. Ct. App. 2000).
· cites it 2× “§ 575.220, RSMo 1994. Appellant waived counsel at trial and represented himself.”
Terry v. State, 854 S.W.2d 571 (Mo. Ct. App. 1993).
· cites it 2× “Movant pled guilty to failure to return to confinement in violation of § 575.220 RSMo 1986 and was sentenced pursuant to a plea agreement to five years’ imprisonment, to run consecutively to the sentences movant was currently serving.”
Banks v. State, 826 S.W.2d 112 (Mo. Ct. App. 1992).
· cites it 2× “§ 575.220, RSMo 1986. On January 4, 1991, Movant filed a pro se Rule 24.”
United States v. Ronnie Delvon Adams, No. 05-2180 (8th Cir. Mar. 23, 2006).
“1 (2); (2) failure to return to confinement, in violation of Mo. Rev. Stat. § 575.220 ; and (3) two second-degree assaults.”
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