A Ferguson municipal court judge named in the damning federal report that found a pattern of racial bias in the city's police and courts has stepped down, and a state judge has taken over for him, Missouri's highest court said Monday. State appeals Judge Roy L. Richter has been transferred to the Ferguson court, where he'll take over for outgoing Judge Ronald Brockmeyer. The judicial shakeup comes after a scathing Justice Department report last week found that the city's culture of racial bias didn't end with its police force, but that it pervaded the courts, too, with blacks two-thirds less likely to have their cases tossed and far more likely to be charged with petty offenses.

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