{"id":1916821,"date":"2023-04-19T19:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-st-louis-prosecutor-threatened-with-jail-time-after-prosecution-doesnt-show-up-at-murder-trial\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:57:16","slug":"embattled-st-louis-prosecutor-threatened-with-jail-time-after-prosecution-doesnt-show-up-at-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-st-louis-prosecutor-threatened-with-jail-time-after-prosecution-doesnt-show-up-at-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled St. Louis Prosecutor Threatened With Jail Time After Prosecution Doesn\u2019t Show Up At Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fembattled-st-louis-prosecutor-threatened-with-jail-time-after-prosecution-doesnt-show-up-at-murder-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner may face a fine or even jail time after her office failed to show up for a murder trial that was supposed to begin Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri\/kim-gardner-faces-contempt-of-court-after-prosecutor-no-shows-murder-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>, the jury trial for Jonathan Jones, 18 \u2014 who is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action \u2014 was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., but the assistant district attorney who was assigned the case was apparently on sick leave and no one else from the office took over the case.<\/p>\n<p>Jones \u2014 who was charged pursuant to a shooting that took place near the riverfront in downtown St. Louis on September 6, 2021 \u2014 was present at the appointed time along with his public defender, Cecilia Appleberry.<\/p>\n<p>When no one from Gardner\u2019s office showed up, Appleberry immediately filed a motion to dismiss the case entirely \u2013 but Judge Scott Millikan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/st-louis-judge-files-to-hold-kim-gardner-in-contempt-after-no-prosecutors-show-for\/article_3a7dc7bc-dd5b-11ed-a795-f734f7f7ac49.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed the trial<\/a> for one week instead, demanding a response from Gardner\u2019s office accounting for the failure to appear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis conduct thwarts and defeats the authority of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis,\u201d Millikan wrote, calling on Gardner to either show cause as to why she should not be held in contempt \u2014 thus facing fines or even jail time \u2014 by April 24.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner is scheduled to appear in another hearing on Tuesday, one in which the future of her position is before the court. Claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/missouri-ag-gives-st-louis-prosecutor-less-than-24-hours-to-resign-or-get-the-boot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gardner has failed<\/a> to perform her job to even bare minimum standards, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a writ of quo warranto to remove her from office.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1681913061093000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1nSUp7X_GMxrPR-OuaxTA7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs AG, I want to protect the people of St. Louis, and that includes protecting victims of crime and finding justice for them,\u201d Bailey said when he announced the filing on February 22. \u201cInstead of protecting victims, Circuit Attorney Gardner is creating them. My office will do everything in its power to restore order, and eliminate the chaos in St. Louis caused by Kim Gardner\u2019s neglect of her office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner may face a fine or even jail time after her office failed to show up for a murder trial that was supposed to begin Monday morning. According to reports, the jury trial for Jonathan Jones, 18 \u2014 who is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action \u2014 was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1916822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7118,3908,5471,5686,4349,10401,6215,12770,6579,5073,4853],"class_list":["post-1916821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-doesnt","tag-embattled","tag-jail","tag-louis","tag-murder","tag-prosecution","tag-prosecutor","tag-st","tag-threatened","tag-time","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}