Maddie McMillian Green has been named deputy attorney general for policy in the Missouri Attorney General Office.

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has announced that he will not seek charges in connection with the death of Tory Sanders, a Black Tennessee man who died in 2017 after officers restrained him in jail in Mississippi County.

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The Court of Appeals Southern District ruled that a judge didn’t abuse his discretion in sentencing a high-profile but low-income defendant to more than two years in jail on a variety of charges.

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The Missouri Attorney General’s Office said it is willing to review the prior administration’s investigation of the death of a Tennessee man who died in 2017 after officers restrained him in jail.

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The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Chinese government over the coronavirus, alleging that nation’s officials are to blame for the global pandemic. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by the state’s top prosecutor, alleges Chinese officials ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled March 31 the state cannot enforce a blanket ban on picketing by public employees. But a larger case about the rights of public-sector unions is headed its way. In a unanimous opinion, the court said ...

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The Missouri Attorney General’s office says taxpayers spent more than $24 million in 2019 on lawsuits against the state. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the $24.2 million paid in 2019 by the Legal Expense Fund is down from the ...

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The Missouri Attorney General’s office has begun to send for analysis some of the state’s backlog of untested rape kits. KCUR reports that the state completed a full inventory of the untested kits last fall and now has sent about 100 ...

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The new year marked a major milestone in an effort to reduce violent crime statewide through greater cooperation between the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and federal prosecutors. The Safer Streets Initiative — launched by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt last ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District is considering whether it has jurisdiction to review an effort to reopen Lamar Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction. Johnson was convicted in 1995 of killing Marcus Boyd in a drug-related dispute. St. Louis Circuit ...

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In a case as procedurally tangled as Lamar Johnson’s, even the docket orders might have some value. Johnson was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Marcus Boyd. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, whose office now contends he was ...

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