{"id":111075,"date":"2025-03-20T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/20\/appellate-court-rejects-municipal-judges-claimed-authority-to-order-competency-evaluations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:33:58","slug":"appellate-court-rejects-municipal-judges-claimed-authority-to-order-competency-evaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/20\/appellate-court-rejects-municipal-judges-claimed-authority-to-order-competency-evaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"Appellate Court Rejects Municipal Judge’s Claimed Authority to Order Competency Evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District denied Municipal Court Judge Michael C. Heffernon’s attempts to appeal a writ of prohibition that prohibited him from ordering the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to complete evaluations on twelve defendants accused of violating city ordinances.<\/p>\n

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The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District denied Municipal Court Judge Michael C. Heffernon’s attempts to appeal a writ of prohibition that prohibited him from ordering the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to complete evaluations on twelve defendants accused of violating city ordinances.<\/p>\n

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The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District denied Municipal Court Judge Michael C. Heffernon’s attempts to appeal a writ of prohibition that prohibited him from ordering the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to complete evaluations on twelve defendants accused of violating city ordinances. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/legal-news-e5LBcj.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}