NEW PROSECUTOR ASSIGNED TO McCLOSKEY CASE

By Mark Chesnut

“I am going to approach it the same way I’ve done anything in the last 49 years — start with a blank slate, follow the evidence and see where it takes me,” the 73-year-old Callahan told St. Louis Today. Things have been rather quiet concerning the ongoing case against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who stood in their yard with a rifle and pistol to defend their home in a gated private neighborhood against a large, unruly crowd last June. But, just last week the case made headlines again as a St. Louis judge appointed a new special prosecutor in the case. Richard Callahan, the U.S. attorney in St. Louis from 2010 to 2017, has been appointed to handle the prosecution. Before we get to that, however, let’s look back…

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