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Judge delays start of St. Louis County Executive Sam Page’s criminal trial0%
By Rachel Lippmann0%
3/9/2026, 8:22:24 PM
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St. Louis County Executive Sam Page will not be going on trial later this month on campaign finance and stealing charges.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys told Greene County Circuit Judge Kati Greenwade on Monday that they would not be ready to start jury selection as scheduled on March 23.
The next hearing in the case is now set for June, and a new start date for the trial is unknown.
Page was indicted last year on two felonies and two misdemeanors for allegedly spending public funds to campaign against a 2025 ballot measure that would have made it easier for the St. Louis County Council to fire department heads.
Page pleaded not guilty and has said the flyer and mailer were educational.
Greenwade had been expected to hear arguments Monday in a Springfield, Missouri, courtroom on a second attempt by defense attorneys to have the case thrown out.
In one motion to dismiss the two campaign finance misdemeanors, Page’s lawyers again argued that the attorney general has not clearly laid out exactly how their client violated the law.
Greenwade in December rejected a similar defense request.
In a second motion to throw out the entire case, defense attorneys called the prosecution politically motivated.
Just months before the election, they wrote in court documents, Page and then-Gov. Mike Parson sparred over who had the authority to replace Wesley Bell as county prosecutor after Bell won election to Congress.
A judge sided with Parson in that legal spat.
The motion notes that more than 30 other political entities such as municipalities and school districts sent mailers ahead of the April 2025 election that contained language similar to the one about the county’s proposition, “but the Democratic Party County Executive Defendant who recently challenged the power of the Republican Party is facing 19 years in prison.”
Page is not running for reelection.
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