Missouri Supreme Court’s Catch and Release Program Starts Monday: Here Is What You Need to Know Rather than spending time deciding critical cases, the Missouri Supreme Court is now changing substantive law through the court rule-making process in what we consider to be a potentially unconstitutional move. Aside from that,Read More →
Missouri Supreme Court’s New Bail Rules Will Upend the Criminal Justice System on July 1, 2019 The Missouri Supreme Court’s new bail rules are going into effect on July 1, 2019. Unlike other states looking at bail reform, these rules were crafted by a secret panel that was not openRead More →
Changes to Supreme Court rules weaken judiciary (excerpt from the Joplin Globe May 5 2019) Early this year, the Missouri Supreme Court announced its intent to make sweeping changes to the rules governing bail and pretrial detention throughout the state. The new standards are set to go into effect inRead More →
