The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld Missouri’s method for funding public schools. About 200 school districts sued the state in 2004, arguing Missouri doesn’t spend enough on education and distributes the money it does spend unfairly. After a weeks-long trial ...

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A Cole County judge has approved a ballot summary – with one change – for a proposed constitutional amendment restricting eminent domain. In an order today, Judge Richard Callahan dismissed most of the Missouri Municipal League’s challenges to the official ...

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MacIntosh named president of MACDL The Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers held its annual meeting at the Branson Hilton April 17-18. During the event, MACDL announced its annual award recipients and elected a new slate of officers to serve on ...

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The state’s rate of about 4 cents per record for those seeking driver’s license data violates the state Sunshine Law, a Cole County judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Richard Callahan last summer ruled that a $7 fee established along with ...

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The state’s rate of charging about 4 cents per record for those seeking driver’s license data violates the state Sunshine Law, a Cole County judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Richard Callahan last summer ruled that a $7 fee established along ...

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It was the “tweet” heard around the legal world. Two weeks ago, a juror in Fayetteville, Ark., used his cell phone to broadcast messages about the progress of the trial via Twitter, a micro-blogging Web site. “I just gave away ...

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Last Tuesday, as word flew across the state about a 45-page ruling clearing defendant Joshua Kezer of the 1992 murder of a young southeastern Missouri woman, one person remained in the dark. Kezer sat in his cell at the Jefferson ...

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Inmate Joshua Kezer walked out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center on Wednesday, just a day after he was exonerated for the 1992 murder of a southeast Missouri woman, Mischelle Lawless. On Tuesday, Cole County Circuit Judge Richard B. Callahan ...

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An Illinois man convicted of the 1992 murder of a southeast Missouri woman has been exonerated by Cole County Circuit Judge Richard B. Callahan. Joshua Kezer was found guilty of the murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless at a 1993 jury ...

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For many people, getting a summons to serve on a jury is far from a welcome piece of mail. Potential jurors regularly plead their case with judges about why serving won’t work. But until recently, potential jurors in Lincoln and ...

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A circuit judge signed off Monday on a settlement reached between court-appointed attorneys and those for Gov. Matt Blunt in a long-running dispute over government records. An attorney for special investigators looking into whether the governor’s office violated the state ...

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