ST. LOUIS — Attorneys for Sheriff Alfred Montgomery say they have new, definitive evidence disproving the state attorney general’s claim that Montgomery hired his half-brother in violation of the state constitution’s nepotism ban and must be removed from office.

Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit in June saying that, among other things, Montgomery had hired one Malik D. Taylor as deputy despite the two sharing a father.

Montgomery’s attorneys said in a Wednesday filing seeking the claim’s dismissal that a 2016 DNA test conducted during a child support case shows otherwise.

A copy of a court order from the case — which lists a Malik D. Taylor with the same birth date as the deputy sheriff named in Bailey’s lawsuit — said genetic testing showed with 99.999998% certainty that his fa

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