The fact that a black man asked a question during jury selection kept him off the jury. But on Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, in a 2-1 decision, ordered a new trial for convicted murderer Tyrone C. ...

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Attorney General Chris Koster on Wednesday announced a telemarketing operation in Georgia that made repeated calls to Missourians on the No Call list has agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties to the state and stop making phone solicitations in Missouri. ...

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A divided Missouri Supreme Court has removed a hurdle to resuming executions in the state. In a 4-3 decision issued Tuesday, the high court said the Department of Corrections protocol establishing how executions are to be conducted in Missouri is ...

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Attorney General Chris Koster has appointed St. Louis County Senior Judge Barbara Crancer as chief counsel of the newly created Division of Civil, Disability and Workers’ Rights. Crancer served as an associate circuit judge for St. Louis County from 1992 ...

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Attorney General Chris Koster recruited two long-time litigators to take top positions in his office. St. Louis attorney Joel Poole will serve as chief counsel of the litigation division, and Jack McManus, a member of the office since 2007, will ...

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Robert Kenney gets fitted with a red bowtie by his assistant Diana Doelling to match his Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus colleagues, who all wore theirs in his honor. Kenney showed up at his going away party sans bowtie, his usual ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Wednesday formally announced the resignations of three of its judges. Judges Paul Spinden and Ron Holliger leave the court this week, and Judge Joseph Dandurand will leave on March 2, the state’s ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Wednesday formally announced the resignations of three of its judges. Judges Paul Spinden and Ron Holliger leave the court this week, and Judge Joseph Dandurand will leave on March 2, the state’s ...

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U.S. Sen. Kit Bond will not seek re-election when his seat is up again in 2010. Bond, a Republican, was first elected a senator in 1986 and has been re-elected three times. Bond shared the news in a speech to ...

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Eastern District Judge Booker Shaw is joining the exodus from the Court of Appeals. After 25 years as a judge, Shaw will retire in February to become a partner in the litigation and appellate litigation practices at St. Louis firm ...

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