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In a recent article in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, a study conducted by Duke University was of interest to me. As a trial lawyer, I am always hungry for research , statistics and new findings about jury pools and selection.  Duke University found   “Juries formed from all white jury pools convicted black defendants 16 percent more …

May was Motorcycle Awareness Month and we have spent the spring months doing a variety of motorcycle safety awareness press releases. Because of our posts and releases, we have received feedback from a variety of folks expressing that helmets should not be required and that government has more important issues than regulating motorcycle helmet legislation. …

Once in a while a really strange auto accident will happen in the strangest location making quite a story.  Last Thursday a semi-truck driver of a Hungry Jack syrup truck spilled onto Buttermilk Pass in northern Kentucky. I would be interested in the mathematical odds of a maple syrup truck crashing and having a spill on …

Tragic news filtered through the newspapers and internet today about two young girls that were killed in Butler County early this morning.  All the more tragic were the circumstances.  According to reports the teenagers were playing “Ghost Train” at a railroad crossing near Poplar Bluff in southeast Missouri.  While Ihave blogged about “Hilltoppin” in Missouri, ”Ghost …