A Toll on Justice: The Players
From the A Toll on Justice: a Post-Dispatch special report series
All three branches of Missouri government are involved in propping up sheriffs' pensions.
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A St. Louis lawyer and municipal judge in Overland. Vatterott, a key figure during the debate over municipal court reforms after the Ferguson protests, wrote the model order that many judges in the state are using to declare unconstitutional a $3 surcharge on court costs to fund the Sheriffs’ Retirement Fund. Vatterott filed a lawsuit to stop the fee, but it was dismissed by the circuit court and appeals court for lack of standing.
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