Students and faculty are expected to attend the court sessions of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, when it holds its docket at Potosi High School at 9:30 a.m. March 29, 2023. The docket will be held in the school’s gymnasium/theater, located at 400 North Mine Street in Potosi. The court sessions are open to the public. The court regularly conducts hearings at various locations, including high schools, throughout the Eastern District.
Three judges from the court of appeals are expected to participate in the docket: Chief Judge Michael E. Gardner, Judge Gary M. Gaertner Jr. and Judge Kurt Odenwald. The judges will sit as a panel of three to hear oral argument from attorneys in a case appealed from the Washington County circuit court. After the court session, judges will participate in a question-and-answer session with audience members and students regarding courts, the role of judges and the judicial system.
Gardner was appointed to the court of appeals in 2020 after serving as a circuit judge for the 32nd Judicial Circuit for five years and practicing law in Cape Girardeau. Odenwald was appointed to the court in 2007, after practicing law in St. Louis and as a staff attorney for the public defender’s office. Gaertner was appointed to the court in 2009 after serving as a circuit judge in St. Louis County, as a federal prosecutor for the United States attorney’s office and as a state prosecutor.
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, is the state’s largest appellate court, with offices in the historic Old Post Office in downtown St. Louis. The court regularly hears cases in St. Louis, Hannibal, Cape Girardeau and other locations in the Eastern District.
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