Local personal-injury attorney and candidate for US Senate, Mark McCloskey and his wife Patricia received news that their law licenses were suspended by the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday of this week. Both will be allowed to continue to practice law as in the same ruling, the court stayed those suspensions, and put them on probation for a year.
The decision stems from their well-known incident in the summer of 2020, when they pointed guns at protesters who had mistakenly walked down their street en-route to St Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house. McCloskey and his wife pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree assault and second-degree harassment, respectively. Missouri Governor Mike Parson later pardoned the pair.
"It's kind of hard to agree that I acted in moral turpitude, but you know, the Supreme Court said so, so you know you have to respect their opinions," McCloskey told Marc Cox.
"I suspect they want me to avoid getting arrested," joked McCloskey about the year long probation period he faces, "I've managed that for the last 65-years or so. They want me to avoid doing anything unethical, which I don't think I've done anyway, but I will do whatever they ask me to do. The best part of it is they have imposed on Patty and me, 100-hours of pro bono work during the course of this year, each. This is essentially a month worth of lawyer-time."
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