St. Louis Circuit Attorney

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was expected to resign June 1 but sent an e-mail to Gov. Mike Parson’s office that she was leaving Tuesday.

Gov. Mike Parson will appoint the successor to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who is resigning on June 1.

Kim Gardner faces contempt. A teenager shot for ringing a doorbell. Andrew Bailey’s anti-trans rule halted. The Legal Roundtable analyzes those cases, and more.

Before leaving for spring break, Missouri House Republicans called the first part of this year’s session successful. How much gets done during the second half, however, depends on how well both chambers navigate divisive bills.

In documents filed late Tuesday night, lawyers for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has not met the high standard under state law to remove her from office.

Andrew Bailey said Wednesday he would take such a step if Kim Gardner did not resign as St. Louis Circuit Attorney by noon Thursday. She did not resign and and called Bailey’s action politically motivated.

Matthew Mahaffey, St. Louis district defender for the Missouri State Public Defender, explains how problems at the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office are affecting his clients — and harming Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's reform agenda.

The Bail Project's Mike Milton is starting a new diversion program that will work with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office: The Freedom Community Center. He discussed it with John Nanney of UMSL on St. Louis on the Air.

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.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner cruised to victory in the city’s Democratic primary last week. Less than a week later, Gov. Mike Parson proposed legislation that would give Attorney General Eric Schmitt the ability to take over the prosecution of certain high-level felonies in St. Louis. In this episode, Gardner talks with host Sarah Fenske about Parson's proposal.