ST. LOUIS • A disgraced former St. Louis prosecutor who admitted helping cover up a city police detective's beating of a handcuffed man has been stripped of her law license by the Missouri Supreme Court.

Bliss Barber Worrell was disbarred Aug. 10 and no longer has a right to practice law in the state of Missouri.

She pleaded guilty in October to misprision of a felony, or helping conceal a crime. She admitted failing to tell supervisors and a judge what she knew about the officer's attack, and also admitted helping file a bogus charge against the victim.

Worrell said she was repeatedly told by then-detective Thomas A. Carroll that he had beaten Michael Waller and stuck a gun in his mouth, possibly chipping his teeth. It happened at a police station in 2014, after other officers caught Waller with a credit card stolen from Carroll’s daughter’s car.