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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Kurt Erickson and Jack Suntrup

Missouri attorney general defends intervention in McCloskey prosecution

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. _ Missouri's top lawyer acknowledged Tuesday his intervention in a high-profile unlawful use of a weapon case involving a St. Louis couple is unusual.

"It doesn't happen every day," Attorney General Eric Schmitt told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an interview in the Capitol.

But, he said his controversial decision to seek to have gun charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey dismissed is rooted in the state's long-held interest in the right to bear arms.

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