Fay v. Stephenson

Appellant Joshua Fay appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Linn County, which declared him ineligible to run as a candidate for Associate Circuit Judge. The circuit court found that Fay was disqualified from running pursuant to § 115.306.1,1 because he had pled guilty to three felony offenses in 1995. The circuit court held that Fay's earlier guilty pleas rendered him ineligible despite the fact that he had received a gubernatorial pardon for those offenses. We affirm.

Factual Background

In February 1995, when Fay was seventeen years old, he pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court of…