Longtime Jackson County Judge Edith Messina has joined the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Read More »Longtime Jackson County Judge Edith Messina has joined the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Read More »Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Jennifer M. Phillips to the 16th judicial circuit Tuesday.
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Read More »It ultimately will fall to Gov. Jay Nixon to fill the Jackson County Circuit Court seat vacated by Judge Edith Messina. And, if history is any indicator, a prosecutor could end up with the job.
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Read More »After nearly 10 years, two appeals and a 2007 jury verdict, no one is entirely sure how much a class action lawsuit against American Family Mutual Insurance Co. is worth. True, a jury awarded – and an appeals court restored ...
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Read More »The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Friday affirmed a $500,000 civil verdict against a man whose underlying criminal charge was thrown out earlier this month. Matthew Davis pleaded guilty in May 2005 to abandoning his girlfriend’s body in ...
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Read More »A Jackson County judge threw out a $150,000 jury verdict in favor of a Kansas City lawyer, saying too much time had expired since he did the work for which he was seeking compensation. Philip Koppe won the verdict in ...
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Read More »One word. Well into a scathing opinion that threw out the guilty plea of a man accused of abandoning his girlfriend’s corpse, Jackson County Judge Edith Messina took a moment to marvel at how what she called a “fraud upon ...
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Read More »A Jackson County judge issued a sharply worded opinion that threw out a man’s 22-year criminal sentence and said the county prosecutor’s office “perpetrated a fraud upon the trial court” for withholding evidence in the case. Judge Edith Messina set ...
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Read More »A Jackson County jury will begin hearing weeks of evidence today in a highly complex fraud case where the plaintiff is seeking to recover tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars in damages. Pier to Pier wants approximately $60 ...
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