Attorneys for St. Louis County Executive Sam Page want a judge to dismiss charges against him related to a mailer over a failed countywide proposition.

At issue is a mailer his office sent out about Proposition B, a failed countywide initiative that would have allowed the St. Louis County Council to fire his department heads. After then-Attorney General Andrew Bailey took over the case, a grand jury indicted Page on two misdemeanor election offenses and two counts of felony theft “by deceit” over the spending of county money.

The case was transferred to Greene County Judge Kaiti Greenwade earlier this year. And now Page’s attorneys have asked Greenwade to dismiss the charges, contending there's a list of problems with the actual indictment.

They dispute, for instance, that Page ignored

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