The obscenity of a single mother owing the county $15,000 after stealing $8 worth of makeup
Tony Messenger delivers Millstone Lecture at Saint Louis University Law School If you look on Missouri’s court website today, you’ll……
Author: Tony Messenger
Tony Messenger won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2019 for his columns in the Post-Dispatch “for bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail.” This is the text of the lecture he delivered at Saint Louis University Law School March 27 to honor James C. Millstone, mentor to a generation of Post-Dispatch reporters.