Missouri’s official manual identifies three distinct jobs in Adam L. Caine’s path to the bench. He clerked for Judge J. Dale Youngs, led a trial team in the Jackson County prosecutor’s office, and served as an assistant United States attorney in the Western District of Missouri. Governor Michael Parson appointed him to the circuit court in April 2020. Missouri voters retained him in 2022.
An exhibit has to reach the record
Division 11 publishes witness and exhibit lists, a standing order on deposition behavior and a set of trial policies. Those are particularly revealing documents for a reader tracing a case from preparation to the courtroom. A witness, a lawyer asking a question and a judge ruling on an objection perform different acts. A newspaper account that assigns them all to the court makes the public record harder to understand.
John Hajicek, editor
As a historian who has also been a litigant, I care which words a witness actually supplied and which came from the lawyer. The distinction also matters when a prosecutor seeks public office. I want readers to have the documents from which to judge a lawyer’s work. Division 11’s public rules offer a place to begin.