From ThePostMillennial.com…
Murder charges against an accused killer were dropped by a St. Louis judge on July 14 after a prosecutor from St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office failed to show.
That prosecutor never showed up to court hearings in May, June, and again on July 14 because she was on maternity leave, according to Fox 2.
Two other murder cases were dismissed last week because of unprepared or absent St. Louis City prosecutors from the office of discredited Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.
“Clearly there is a problem with her internal management system that needs a quick fix, someway, somehow. But it is inexcusable that you would have three continuances, three times that she doesn’t show up for a murder case,” said Fox 2’s legal expert Attorney Chet Pleban who said that using an attorney away on maternity leave may have been a tactic to postpone having to try that case.
