The effort to get a new trial for a man who has spent nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he claims he didn’t commit is headed to the Missouri Supreme Court. The Missouri Court of Appeals in the ...

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An appeals court says Kansas City officials didn't provide a compelling enough reason to move four 19th century cemeteries near Kansas City International Airport. The decision, issued less than three weeks after argument, was surprisingly quick. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday upheld a finding by a Platte County judge that the city of Kansas City didn't show good cause why the remains should be moved. The city had hoped to move the old graveyards so that the land could someday be developed.

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Standing in the atrium of a courtroom that didn’t exist when he took the bench, Judge Hal Lowenstein gracefully bowed out of a 28-year judicial career. Lowenstein, who turns 70 today, retired Monday from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western ...

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Whatever the fate of a 2007 state statute regulating abortion clinics, the outcome will not be due to a lack of judges. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri went back before the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Thursday. The organization argues the law, which regulates ambulatory surgery centers that provide abortions, shouldn't apply to clinics that only dispense such drugs as the RU-486 pill.

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An appeals court has struck down a rule allowing the Missouri Public Defender Commission to stop taking certain cases to reduce its offices’ workloads. The demise of the rule places additional importance on a bill pending in the Missouri Legislature ...

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Michael Teer is a free man. He walked out of the St. Charles County Jail last Thursday after the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis ordered that he be discharged. Teer killed four people and injured another in an ...

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A Missouri appeals court may have made it easier to condemn private property for redevelopment. In a decision handed down last week, the Missouri Court of Appeals in Kansas City said the condemnation of property that houses Gigi’s Wigs & ...

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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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