Fair warning: When you put me on the bench this is likely to increase, rather than decrease, whatever sanction or penalty you’re trying to avoid.
ALSO: It's not a big deal, but not only was the Missouri AG's Office late in filing Hoskins's response to the show cause order—which, yikes—but they literally blamed a paralegal for it in a really tawdry paragraph in their brief asking for the court to OK the 6-minute-late filing (which it did).