A quick Google search on the AG fighting Dunn’s release gives more light to this case.
It turns out Andrew Bailey is in fact a total cockbag, not a partial cockbag but complete and total one. A line from his Wiki:
During his tenure as attorney general, Bailey has adopted hardline conservative positions. He has refused to release prisoners after overturned convictions, attempted unsuccessfully to restrict gender-affirming care, battled initiatives to restore access to abortion in Missouri, and staunchly defended former President Donald Trump over his legal problems.
He appears to just take any hardline right, douchebag, position he can and then almost troll with it.
It’s amazing how the US has allowed so many of these assholes to get into power.