Missouri Supreme Court disciplines St. Louis lawyers who waved guns at BLM protesters [View all]
Source: kcur.org
The McCloskeys drew national headlines when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who had entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor in June 2020.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday indefinitely suspended the law licenses of two St. Louis attorneys who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, but it stayed their suspensions and placed them on probation for a year.
The orders came after Missouri’s chief disciplinary counsel last year asked the court to suspend the law licenses of Mark McCloskey and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, in connection with their guilty pleas to misdemeanors stemming from the gun-waving incident.
The orders mean that if they violate the terms of their probation, their law licenses could be suspended indefinitely.
Read more: https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-02-08/missouri-supreme-court-disciplines-st-louis-lawyers-who-waved-guns-at-blm-protesters
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