A mid-Missouri prosecutor has pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors and will resign after he backed his truck into a Columbia restaurant in 2014. Moniteau County Prosecutor Shayne Healea entered the plea on Tuesday to three counts of misdemeanor assault and ...

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A mid-Missouri prosecutor has pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors and will resign after he backed his truck into a Columbia restaurant in 2014. Moniteau County Prosecutor Shayne Healea entered the plea on Tuesday to three counts of misdemeanor assault and ...

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Three years ago, nobody wanted to be the prosecutor in Schuyler County. These days, it’s a hot enough gig that an appeals court will have to decide which of two claimants gets to keep the office.

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The National Center for State Courts studied a sample of 10 judicial circuits in Missouri and discovered “an important relationship" between the number of prosecutors and public defenders in a given county.

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At the urging of a new Missouri Bar governor, the Missouri State Public Defender System may try to recoup some of the $70,000 the system raised to pay for a comprehensive study of its caseload problems. The governor, Marie Kenyon, ...

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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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