by admin | Feb 9, 2011 | Crime / Courts
State Chief Justice Ray Price has two messages of lawmakers in his State of the Judiciary address: the same messages he has delivered before. Price, chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, tells a joint session of the legislature Missouri is throwing too many...
by admin | Dec 14, 2010 | Crime / Courts
Legislators, looking for ways to cut the state budget, have been told that alternatives to prison might be the answer. Estimates of the budget shortfall legislators might face in the 2011 session have fallen in the range of $400-to-700 million. Chairman of the House...
by admin | Oct 7, 2010 | Crime / Courts, Military, Politics / Govt
A case before the United States Supreme Court could provide clues as to how state lawmakers could re-fashion a law that sought to regulate protests at military funerals. US Supreme Court Justices have heard the arguments in the case of Snyder versus Phelps. The...
by admin | Sep 30, 2010 | Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt
Changes have been made to Missouri’s non-partisan court plan, the method used to select the state’s appellate judges and judges in certain judicial circuits. Chief Justice Ray Price says the primary change will be to make public the interviews the Appellate...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | Politics / Govt
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Ray Price told state lawmakers that the Missouri court system cannot absorb any more budget cuts, that they must rethink criminal law and that politics must not become part of the process of choosing judges. In a 40 minute State of...