TheKansasCityChannel.comState Orders Female Violent Sexual Predator Free Judges Rule Reoffense By Female Offenders Unlikely POSTED: 2:31 p.m. CST March 4, 2003UPDATED: 3:09 p.m. CST March 4, 2003 ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri appeals court Tuesday ordered freedom for an HIV-positive woman indefinitely confined as a violent sexual predator, ruling there was scant evidence proving recidivism of women convicted of sex crimes. In mandating Angela Coffel's release, a three-judge Missouri Court of Appeals panel unanimously cited expert testimony that there is less than a 2 percent chance that a woman would be a repeat sex offender. "All of the experts who...
