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Snow might delay justice in St. Louis area courtrooms today, but it won’t deny justice. The National Weather Service forecast 3 to 5 inches of snow mixed with sleet by this morning with the possibility of another 2 inches falling ...

In February 2008, I wrote a column about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari in Herring v. United States I predicted the court would conclude that the exclusionary rule did not apply to the facts of the case. ...

Leigh Joy Carson talks about her work as a guardian ad litem in her office in Clayton Monday. A recent appellate decision said petitioners of child orders of protection are exempt from paying appellate guardian ad litem fees. Carson doesn’t ...

Former boss testifies to budget conflict

I got into this whole lawyer thing after a stint as a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Greene County, Ohio. I was also covering the courts and county government for the Xenia Daily Gazette there and got to know the ...

In the years that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. officials debated internally how hurtful the pain, how humiliating the degradation, how frightening the sense of drowning that American interrogators could legally inflict on suspected enemies. The predictable ...

A former president of First Bank Mortgage has pleaded guilty to misapplication of funds, causing a loss to the mortgage company of $35 million, U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway announced. Mark Turkcan’s problems began when, as an employee for Sheahan Financial ...

A small but wrongly applied credit card fee dinged a man’s credit score so badly that it cost him tens of thousands of dollars when he bought a house. Now the bank that stubbornly refused to waive the fee has ...

Two women claimed they were assaulted in this garage in the Waldo neighborhood of Kansas City in November. Last week, federal authorities alleged that the attack was staged to bolster a civil lawsuit. Photo by Matt Frye Criminal complaint could ...

Photo by David Knopf The Jackson County Circuit Court’s new Polycom video-conferencing system passed its maiden voyage with flying colors, judges in Kansas City and Independence say. The system enabled around 10 members of the circuit court’s executive management committee ...

A small but wrongly applied credit card fee dinged a man’s credit score so badly that it cost him tens of thousands of dollars when he bought a house. Now the bank that stubbornly refused to waive the fee has ...