The Missouri State Public Defender Commission has selected Mary Fox, district defender for the city of St. Louis, to be the next director of the Missouri State Public Defender System. H. Riley Bock, a New Madrid attorney who serves as ...
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A Missouri lawyer power couple has announced resignations from their respective positions as executive director of The Missouri Bar and director of the Missouri State Public Defender System. Sebrina Barrett, who has served as executive director of The Missouri Bar ...
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Read More »Gov. Jay Nixon has proposed cutting $3.4 million from the Office of the State Public Defender’s budget.
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Read More »The Missouri State Public Defender System has appointed Patricia “Patti” Tucka as district defender of the Kennett trial office.
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Read More »The Missouri State Public Defender System has appointed a new deputy trial division director and district defender for the Jefferson City trial office.
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Read More »A new study says Missouri’s public defenders are spending far less time on cases than they ought to be.
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What if the longstanding public defender crisis could be solved by spending less money?
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Eighteen inmates have filed suit, alleging the overburdened public defender system is responsible for their collective decades behind bars.
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Read More »Despite a lengthy objection filed by the Missouri State Public Defender System, Special Master J. Miles Sweeney declined to change his finding that “serious questions” remain about the basis for the public defender’s caseload protocols.
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Read More »The public defender system and state bar are gearing up in case private lawyers start getting assigned on a massive scale to handle public defender overflow cases.
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Read More »They’re not getting the increased funding they would like next fiscal year, but the state’s court and public defender systems aren’t getting slashed either.
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