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There was no requirement that a judge be a lawyer, and these "judges" had no judicial authority. The Court reflected the county's divided nature with one judge representing the then-rural eastern areas around the county seat of Independence, while the western judge represented the more urban areas closer to Kansas City. The presiding judge was ...
Andrew Jackson Higgins (June 21, 1921 – September 14, 2011) was a judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri between 1979 and 1991, and its Chief Justice from 1985 to 1987. Previously, he had served as a commissioner for the Supreme Court between 1964 and 1979, and as Circuit Court Judge for Platte County from 1960 to 1964.
The circuit judges of the circuit may make rules for the circuit not inconsistent with the rules of the supreme court. 2. Each circuit shall have such number of circuit judges as provided by law. 3. The circuit and associate circuit judges in each circuit shall select by secret ballot a circuit judge from their number to serve as presiding judge.
A Missouri judge has ruled that Attorney General Andrew Bailey can be questioned about a meeting he had with a Jackson County legislator during Bailey’s litigation against the county related to ...
Samuel Treat was the first judge to serve Missouri's Eastern District. William H. Webster was the most recent judge to be elevated from the Eastern District of Missouri to the Eighth Circuit. The following is a list of judges for United States district courts in Missouri. Missouri currently holds two courts: Eastern [1] and Western. [2]
The law gave Jackson County prosecutors a path to free Kevin Strickland, a Kansas City man who spent 42 years in prison for a triple murder he did not commit. Before Tuesday, Strickland was the ...
The group includes former Jackson County judges Jon R. Gray, John R. O’Malley and Robert Schieber; former Boone and Calloway counties Judge Gary Oxenhandler; former Court of Appeals and City of ...
From 1995 to 2001, he worked as an assistant prosecuting attorney in the Jackson County Prosecutors Office. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Drug Court Commissioner in Jackson County. In 2007 he was appointed circuit court judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri by Governor Matt Blunt , a position he held until his confirmation as a ...