Benjamin J. Gray, Attorney at Law

01/15/2024

Here are my reflections today on Martin Luther King, Jr., why it is we have a holiday in celebration of him, and why we desperately need yet reject leaders like him today.

https://kirksvilleattorney.com/bens-thoughts/martin-luther-king-jr-courage-and-what-we-want-to-hear

02/28/2015

Such heresy from John Oliver to suggest that our courts should actually put justice ahead of politics!

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore made news this month after he defied a federal order requiring the state to recognize same-sex marriages. Moore has a history of defying federal orders, and many Americans were baffled as to how his lawless grandstanding could only make him more popular in ensuing ele…

10/30/2013

Another NOT GUILTY verdict! This time, on an assault case in Scotland County this past Monday.

10/15/2013

Usually, politics result in someone being punished excessively or punished for something they didn't do, but irregardless, politics get in the way of justice far too often.

The mother of a teenage Albany, Mo., girl said Monday she hoped the fresh attention given a dismissed Maryville, Mo., sexual abuse case would prompt local authorities to take another look at it. The Coleman family appeared on CNN to repeat that they believe justice was not served in the 2012 sexual…

12/08/2011

A St. Louis area man, who admitted to causing damage inside a Kirksville business during a drunken rampage, has avoided jail time.

06/08/2011

...or, we could just continue wasting $.

What do former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan; former Cabinet member George Shultz, who served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon; former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker; former presidents of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia; writers Carlo Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa;

07/01/2010

Drastic new changes go into effect in the Missouri DWI statutes very soon. Mandatory jail time provisions for certain offenders will be difficult to navigate your way around.