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Christopher Dunn, whom a Missouri judge ruled was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for more than 30 years, remains in prison after a series of court rulings Wednesday. The Missouri Attorney General has been pushing to keep Dunn and other wrongfully convicted prisoners behind bars.
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Under the 2022 constitutional amendment that legalized marijuana, Missouri courts were required to review and expunge previous misdemeanors by last June and felonies by last December. Those deadlines came and went, and many counties are still months or more away from completing the task.
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Voters in Missouri and as many as 12 other states could weigh in this year on abortion ballot initiatives. But the seven states that have voted on abortion-related ballot measures since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections two years ago show that an election can be just the beginning.
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Missouri appeals court sides with Blue Springs transgender student in $4 million discrimination caseIn a unanimous decision, the court ruled that the Blue Springs School District discriminated against the student, identified by his initials R.M.A., on the basis of sex when it barred him from using the boys’ locker room.
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The measure passed in 2023 requires removal of almost all personal identifiers, including witness and victim names and addresses, from public court documents.
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A lawsuit from former council member Ruth Herbel alleges that the August 2023 raids on her home and the Marion County Record were acts of retaliation by the mayor, police chief and sheriff — and accused officials of "judge-shopping" for warrants.
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Traffic tickets for low-income drivers can snowball into thousands of dollars of debt and revoked licenses. A new law aims to reduce fines and fees to help get them reinstated.
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A group of Kansas City homeowners sued the National Association of Realtors in 2019 over what they said were inflated commission fees. The powerful trade group, which denies wrongdoing, agreed in March to pay $418 million in damages and to adjust its commission practices, which could transform the way Americans buy and sell homes.
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Terra Morehead, who retired as a federal prosecutor last August, has agreed to turn over her law license as part of an agreement with a Kansas disciplinary board. As a Wyandotte County prosecutor in the 1990s, Morehead helped KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski frame an innocent man who spent 23 years in prison.
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The lawsuit claims that the Marion mayor, police chief and other local officials violated the First Amendment freedom of the press, the Fourth Amendment prohibition on warrantless searches, and federal and state laws that protect journalists and their sources from police raids.
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Denton Loudermill was briefly detained by police but then released without charges after the Super Bowl shooting. He filed a lawsuit against Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, who shared photos of Loudermill on social media falsely claiming he was an "illegal alien" and one of the shooters.
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The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.