by admin | Aug 13, 2019 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that two former St. Louis assistant prosecutors violated rules of professional conduct, for their role in a 2014 cover-up of an illegal police assault in St. Louis. The state Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion on Tuesday,...
by admin | Jul 16, 2019 | Crime / Courts, News
Legislation requiring Missouri’s Amber Alert System Oversight Committee to meet at least annually has been signed into law by Governor Mike Parson. State Rep. Curtis Trent, R-Springfield, filed “Hailey’s Law” in response to the 2014 kidnapping,...
by Mike Lear | Jun 8, 2015 | Crime / Courts, News
The daughters of a man Missouri plans to execute Tuesday for killing his girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter want his life spared, even though one of them was there the night of the murders. Richard Strong brutally stabbed and slashed 23-year-old Eva Washington and...
by Mike Lear | Jul 15, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The Missouri Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether what appears on next month’s ballot about a proposed gun rights amendment says all it should say. The Court has been asked to consider whether the title and ballot summary that voters will see next month...
by Mike Lear | Jul 8, 2014 | News
The Corrections Department asked the State Supreme Court not to ask it to carry out more than one execution per month. The Supreme Court has honored that request and changed its own rules to reflect it. A Corrections spokesman hasn’t acknowledged the request was...
