Departing Missouri judge says courts face money, political pressures

Thursday, June 30, 2011 | 5:23 p.m. CDT; updated 5:54 p.m. CDT, Thursday, June 30, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY — With his term atop Missouri's judiciary ending, Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. warned Thursday that the courts are facing increased political and financial pressures that are straining their core functions of dispensing justice and resolving disputes.

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