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over 30 years of legal experience
Mr. Insco has been a lawyer over 30 years.  He is presently in the general practice of law in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he handles a wide variety of cases including criminal defense, family law, contract law, and personal injury. He has also provided technical assistance consulting to judicial agencies such as courts, prosecutors, correctional institutions, and private firms who support them.

trial experience
Mr. Insco has tried literally hundreds of cases in his career. He is an aggressive trial attorney comfortable with issues from personal injury to criminal trials.

elected prosecuting attorney
Mr. Insco was elected to three terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Buchanan County, Missouri, a post which he left in 1990, to enter private practice.  He still serves as a Special Prosecutor in the State of Missouri, on occasion.

He has served as a faculty member for the National College of District Attorneys.  He has lectured for the National Victim Center, Washington DC, the National Organization for Victim Assistance, Washington, DC, the Association of Paroling Authorities International, the American Restitution Association, and the American Probation and Parole Association.  He has also lectured for the FBI at its training unit in Quantico, Virginia.

As prosecuting attorney, in 1977, he started the first victim/witness assistance program in the four state region of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. As prosecutor, he initiated many new and innovative programs which attracted national and regional attention, including: a state-wide computer program for Missouri prosecutors, the first criminal anti-trust conviction in Missouri, the first welfare fraud trial in Missouri, and a multi jurisdictional drug strike force which became a model for state-wide use. 

During his tenure as Prosecuting Attorney he served as president of the Missouri Prosecuting Attorneys Association and Chairman of the Missouri Office of Prosecution Services. 

state and national recognition
He served as statewide chairman of the Victims' Constitutional Committee, which authored and lobbied for, Missouri's Constitutional Amendment for Victim Rights, one of the most comprehensive victims' constitutional amendments in the country.

education
He graduated cum laude from Missouri Western State University and cum laude from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, where he was a recipient of the Victor Wilson Merit Scholarship and law review qualified.

honors
He has served on numerous state and national task forces, boards, and commissions and received awards including:

• Who's Who in American Law
• Who's Who in the Midwest
• President, Missouri Prosecuting Attorney’s Association
• Chairman, Missouri Office of Prosecution Services
• U. S. Parole Commission, Victim Services Advisory Panel
• Outstanding Service to Crime Victims award from the Missouri Victim's Assistance Network
• Board member, Missouri Association of Counties
• Missouri Governor’s Rape Task Force
• Missouri Governor's Crime Commission

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