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A new bill shuffling its way through the Missouri Capitol would do away with the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission (MoSAC) and send us back to the Wild West when sentencing felons.

As a public defender, I don’t tend to worry about getting fired from a case, as getting fired generally means someone has come up with enough money to hire a private attorney. Even the cases that looked interesting or desirable professionally that have found their way off my docket are not heartbreakers or anything to which I give a second thought.

“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.”

H.L. Mencken penned this little gem and I live it.

Just a few weeks after I was born in 1971, D.B. Cooper jumped out of a Boeing 727 into infamy and law enforcement lore.

Somewhere in my upbringing I had the romantic notion that my grandfather from Kentucky would spout vulgar clichés of wisdom at me while sipping bourbon on some summer evening porch.

Somewhere in my upbringing I had the romantic notion that my grandfather from Kentucky would spout vulgar clichés of wisdom at me while sipping bourbon on some summer evening porch. Of course, this was not the case, as my Kentucky ...

I often start these columns with musical quotations that act as some kind of shorthand for how I think or feel about a topic. While I considered doing that this week the songs were too numerous to whittle them down ...

“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky. Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same. There’s a green one and a pink one, and a blue one and a yellow one, and they’re all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same.”

I always liked the concept of the prisoner’s dilemma. It is a game theory that highlights a pretty basic flaw in humans: Sometimes we will hurt others to save ourselves. The prisoner’s dilemma essentially boils down to the story of ...

Last week Missouri went glacial on us, and many of the courthouses around the state closed down. This gave all of us lawyers a chance to catch up on phone calls, research and, in my case at least, write closure memorandums for a few dozen cases.

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All things great and small deserve our attention. I realize some of the more powerful among us may have lost sight of how rewarding it is to help someone with a minor legal problem. What we as lawyers view as ...