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Criminal Law: Closing Argument-Plain Error Review
Staff Report//September 15, 2023
Where defendant argued that the prosecutor made an improper comment during closing argument about his post-arrest failure to volunteer an exculpatory statement, the defendant failed to establish facially substantial grounds for believing that a manifest injustice occurred, so the court declined to grant plain error review.
Judgment is affirmed.
State v. Hough (MLW No. 80500/Case No. SD37664 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Borthwick, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Greene County, Mountjoy, J.
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