A new study of Missouri’s public defender system — which provides lawyers for indigent defendants in criminal cases — says the system’s lawyers are so underpaid, overworked and badly supervised that they’re like the pilots of the commuter plane that crashed…
The Missouri Bar held its annual meeting in St. Louis last week, an event that’s usually keynoted by a somber address from the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. This year, the assembled lawyers heard the chief justice deliver…
St. Louis County Courthouse. J.B. Forbes/Post-Dispatch
There’s been much bellyaching in recent years, mainly from hard-core conservatives, about how judges are selected in Missouri.
Under the pioneering program acclaimed nationally as the “Missouri Plan,” state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges are…
