Alfred Montgomery is still sheriff in St. Louis — at least for a little while longer.

On Friday, a judge denied a third request from the Missouri attorney general to immediately remove Montgomery from office.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven R. Ohmer said he was growing impatient with the attorney general’s office for continuing to push for Montgomery’s ouster without allowing the quo warranto process to play out.

“I am not, for the third time, going to follow through with your request to remove him,” Ohmer told the attorney general’s team from the bench. “I need hard evidence of what it is, not what you say it is, or what [Montgomery] says it is. We need to have a trial and evidence before I can make a ruling in your favor or in his favor.”

Ohmer said he would consider any further motio

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