Missouri Supreme Court

Though the change was approved in late June, it will not take effect until July 2023. That gives court officials time to make sure the computer system can handle the traffic, and to reinforce the importance of redacting personal or sensitive information.

As a condition of their probation, Mark and Patricia McCloskey are required to provide 100 hours of pro bono legal services to organizations that provide free legal services for poor or indigent Missouri residents.

The Missouri Supreme Court sent a case involving the Second Amendment Preservation Act back to a lower court on Tuesday. The ruling lets St. Louis and Jackson County argue that the law, which prevents police in Missouri from cooperating with federal officials to enforce gun regulations, is unconstitutional.

A state hearing panel was asked to issue a reprimand, the lowest level of formal disciplinary action, to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. It will issue its decision in the next 30 days, though the Missouri Supreme Court will have the final say.

Carnes, who is now 52, was convicted of killing 24-year-old Larry White in October 2003 and sentenced to life in prison. The Missouri Supreme Court set aside his conviction earlier this week.

Keith Carnes, who is now 52, maintained he was innocent of the murder of 24-year-old Larry White in October 2003. The Missouri Supreme Court says Carnes met his burden of proving the state failed to disclose material evidence in his case.

The McCloskeys drew national headlines when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who had entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor in June 2020.

A St. Louis attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court that the 2021 gun law, which bans Missouri police from enforcing federal gun laws, was an "unintelligible statute" that has confused state law enforcement.

In a 38-page response to a complaint filed requesting that the Missouri Supreme Court suspend their law licenses, Mark and Patricia McCloskey say violent riots and protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis justified their actions.

The case resulted from a 2019 challenge to a state law that says local elected officials can’t spend public money to campaign for or against ballot measures or candidates.

Linda Dickerson-Bell said she believes Michael Politte, who has been imprisoned in Missouri for nearly 23 years, is innocent of the murder of his mother, Rita Politte.

The state of Missouri this week executed Ernest Johnson, 61, who was convicted of murdering three people in 1994. His attorneys argued he was ineligible for the death penalty because multiple IQ tests had shown he had the mental capacity of a child.