Jan 28, 2018
Felons are forbidden from selling lottery tickets in Missouri – by both statute and regulation. And felons are prohibited from participating in the sale of alcohol by Missouri’s regulations, too. Thus, employers at gas stations, convenience stores, restaurants, bars, grocery stores and more often do not have the freedom to give a felon a chance. Yet.
Jan 21, 2018
Currently, Missouri is one of only five states that sends all 17-year-olds accused of a crime to the adult criminal justice system.
Jan 14, 2018
For the past ten years, the misdemeanor of invasion of privacy in the second degree has been special to me. Why? I’ve only seen it charged once, in a case assigned to me at the public defender’s office. And it was the first case that I got to first chair at jury trial (an event I had been impatiently awaiting).
Jan 7, 2018
If you force a guy to bring a knife to a gun fight, the outcome of the fight doesn’t tell us much (unless knife guy wins).