MO Lawyers Blog

Commission announces finalists for Southern District vacancy  

The state’s Appellate Judiciary Commission announced three finalists on Friday for an open seat on the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District. The three finalists for the position are Deborah K. Dodge, William W. Francis Jr. and Mark A. Powell. The open slot was created when John Parrish retired last September. According to a press release from [...]

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Twenty-three apply for Southern District vacancy 

Correction: One of the applicants for the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District is Andrew P. Wood, not Andrew P. Wodd. The Appellate Judicial Commission has for the first time released the names of every person it will interview for a judicial vacancy. In a statement today, the commission offered up the names of 23 judges and [...]

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Rape victim’s Facebook page not ‘legally relevant’  

A rape victim’s Facebook musings were not admissible as part of her accused attacker’s defense, the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District ruled. Jacob Montgomery Corwin was convicted in Greene County of attempted forcible rape. A woman he’d met at a bar one night in May 2006 said he’d tried to force her to have sex [...]

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State’s longest-serving judge to retire 

Judge John E. Parrish, the current longest-serving judge in the state, is retiring at the beginning of September. Parrish currently serves on the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District and was appointed to the position in 1990. Before serving on the appeals court, Parrish was a circuit judge for the 26th Judicial Circuit. In total, he [...]

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