McCloskeys Want Prosecutor Removed From Their Case

Ideally, Mark and Patricia McCloskey want charges of evidence tampering and unlawful use of a weapon dropped entirely, but for the moment their attorney is focusing his efforts on getting St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner removed from the prosecution team.

Joel Schwartz argues that Gardner’s efforts have been politically motivated throughout the investigation into the St. Louis attorneys accused of pointing guns at protesters who were trespassing through their private neighborhood, and today he’s asking a judge to agree.

Gardner’s campaign emails, Schwartz has said in court filing, “drew a direct line” from the confrontation outside the McCloskeys’ mansion to “Gardner’s political antagonists, and from there a call for donations to further her reelection efforts.”