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Letter: Retiring judge Romines gives thanks to lawyers

In August of this year, consistent with the Missouri Constitution, I will retire.

Letter: A better decoy, but still not a deer

I read with considerable interest the letter written by Mr. Dee Wampler in your Feb. 6 edition, concerning Judge William Vandeventer’s Stuffed Deer opinion.

Letter: Time is right to abolish Missouri’s death penalty | Vote

For the first time in the Missouri Legislature, there is significant bipartisan support for the elimination of the death penalty.

Letter: Missouri winning race to bottom in higher ed funding

Step aside Mississippi! Missouri is ready to take your place in all those jokes about how poorly educated its citizens are. If the Missouri General Assembly goes along with Governor Nixon’s 12.5 percent cut to the higher education budget, our state will likely be dead last in per capita funding.

Letter: Judge ruled stuffed deer can’t be hunted, killed

In reading the delightful letter from Joplin attorney Cobb Young, “Remembering Judge Maus and the Case of the Missing Shoe” (Jan. 23 edition), it brings to my memory my late father, Homer D. Wampler Jr. (1918-1999), who related stories about Presiding Judge William Vandeventer of the Springfield Court of Appeals.

Letter: Remembering Judge Maus and the case of the missing shoe

Judge Almon Maus, who served on the Southern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals from 1979 to 1993, died Jan. 9 in Springfield. This writer, who was Judge Maus’ first law clerk, recalls the first appellate opinion by Judge Maus.

Letter to the Editor: Problem is with system, not public defenders

I am writing in response to your June 17 article entitled “Public defenders tell court of its sub-par lawyers.” I have no quarrel with the content of the article, but I most certainly have a quarrel with the misleading and demeaning headline chosen for the story.

Sanction is a public document

In the April 4 article “Hell for Hais,” concerning a court judgment for sanctions [against Clayton family law firm Hais, Hais, Goldberger & Coyne], there was an implication that the judgment was “leaked” to the press.

Orthodox Jew has right to recess for holiday

Last month, Maryland’s highest court confronted the issue of whether the First Amendment requires a postponement of trial when a party and his attorney are barred from participating in proceedings because of religious beliefs.

Sunshine Week once again had few bright spots

It’s frustrating to run up against opponents of open government who are funded with tax money. This is your tax money, legislative constituents’ tax money, my tax money.

Letter to the editor: Holding SVPs without proper treatment is inhuman

I want to thank you for covering the cases originating inside the Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment Center, now renamed Sexual Offender Rehabilitation Treatment Services.

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