State Rep. Stan Cox hopes his House Bill 210 will provide greater transparency and utility to the state’s criminal code.
The Sedalia Republican’s bill to reorganize the code, the first such reorganization since 1979, is based on recommendations proposed following a four-year project of the Missouri Bar Association headed up by Jason Lamb, executive director of the Missouri Office of Prosecution Services, and Gwenda Robinson, district defender for the Appellate/Post-conviction Office of the Missouri Public Defender System.
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