Missouri State Public Defender's Office

Detainees in the City Justice Center last year waited an average of 146 days before getting a preliminary hearing. District Defender Matthew Mahaffey discussed how practices by the Circuit Attorney's Office have contributed to long stays at the jail, which has been cited as a factor in recent unrest there.

The Legal Roundtable on "St. Louis on the Air" will discuss two cases that went to trial last week with the ACLU of Missouri as plaintiff, as well as a host of other legal matters. That includes a Greene County, Missouri, woman who says she was fired for being ugly.

After spending nearly 15 years in courtrooms as the lead public defender in St. Louis, Mary Fox has a new job.Last month, she became head of Missouri’s…

The chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court says the state needs to properly fund its public defender system to continue the criminal justice reforms…

Two years ago, a pair of public interest law firms filed suit against the state of Missouri, saying it had failed to provide “meaningful” legal…