by admin | Feb 28, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has ruled on a challenge to an abortion law creating an informed consent requirement, including a 24-hour waiting period before elective abortions can be performed. Planned Parenthood had argued the statute was unconstitutionally vague and that...
by admin | Feb 2, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The system used to execute 66 people in Missouri in 17 years is under court challenge. And Michael Taylor is still alive, because of it. Taylor was to be executed at a minute past midnight Wednesday morning for the 1989 rape and murder of a 15-year-old Ann Harrison of...
by admin | Jan 31, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Despite some controversy, Samuel Alito has been sworn in as the newest Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Conservatives hail the confirmation as a victory; liberals fear it will sway the Supreme Court to the political right. Saint Louis University Law...
by admin | Jan 25, 2006 | News
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Wolff asks the Legislature for more money, telling a joint session of the General Assembly that a lack of resources is driving people from judicial services. Wolff says recent budget restrictions have cost the state deputy...
by admin | Jan 10, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court is being asked to overturn Missouri’s Sex Offender Registration Act. Attorney Arthur Benson, representing several plaintiffs, claims the law is unconstitutional – in part because the statute requires registration of those who were...
