ST. LOUIS—For the second time since the Missouri attorney general’s office brought a quo warranto action against St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery seeking a trial to force his removal, the state is asking a judge for Montgomery’s immediate removal.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said her office would seek a partial summary judgment on three counts filed earlier this summer: Montgomery’s role in the handcuffing and detention of a then-deputy corrections commissioner at the city’s jail, his office’s refusal to transport detainees seeking medical attention and his use of city personnel and vehicles to transport and supervise his children.
The original case brought by then-Attorney General Andrew Bailey included an allegation of nepotism, which the state argued at the time merited immediate removal. The retired judge hearing the case, Steven Ohmer, denied that bid, and the state later dropped the charge after Montgomery’s legal team produced a paternity test that refuted the allegation…