Gabe Gore

Dunn is optimistic about his freedom but also cautious: “I've been down this road before.”

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore’s predecessor, Kim Gardner, filed a similar motion just days before she left office. Gore withdrew the motion in June to conduct his own review of the case.

Gov. Mike Parson appointed Gore to fill out the term of Kim Gardner, who resigned amid a growing uproar about her management of the office.

Gov. Mike Parson named Gabe Gore, a former federal prosecutor and Ferguson Commission member, to the post in May after the resignation of Kim Gardner.

Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.

George Draper will be the chief training officer for the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office. He worked as a prosecutor for 10 years at the beginning of his long legal career.

Gabriel Gore took over the circuit attorney’s office on May 30, after the resignation of Kim Gardner.

Gabriel Gore was sworn in as the new circuit attorney on Tuesday with the task of stabilizing a severely understaffed office.

Gov. Mike Parson appointed Gabriel Gore to be circuit attorney on May 19 to replace Kim Gardner.

Gore is an attorney with prominent St. Louis law firm Dowd Bennett. He was also a member of the Ferguson Commission.