Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey—arrested and charged after they pointed weapons toward Black Lives Matter demonstrators near their home in St. Louis in June 2020—are struggling to fulfill their probation requirements.
They have to work 200 hours of service probation and wanted to do so by representing Project Veritas, a conservative activist group. But the state’s highest court issued an order denying that request.
“Respondent is required to provide pro bono legal services at or through organizations that provide legal services without charge to or on behalf of poor or indigent Missouri residents,” wrote Missouri Supreme Court Chief Judge Paul Wilson in the March 18 order….