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MR. WINTERS: That is the type of commission

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that has had the most experience, and I think that the

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experience with that has been good. When I say the

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most experience, there still has not been enough exper-

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ience for anybody to be very sure that the last word

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has been found. I am not sure that it could not be

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improved on.

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MR. CORY: All of these nominating commission

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members are appointed or are some of them chosen some

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other way?

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MR. WINTERS: Well, in all that I know of, the

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laymen are appointed. Lawyer members tend to be elected

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by the bar association or by the whole membership of the

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bar. In Missouri that is the same thing. In fact, I

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do not know of any instance in which they are elected

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by tha bar association, when there is a difference —

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for example, the State of Iowa does not have a unified

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bar as Missouri does, but they do not use the association

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The Supreme Court has a system for polling all lawyers

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without regard to association.

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MR. CORY: As a practical matter, in the