Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

Where a defendant challenged the denial of a motion to suppress in a child-pornography case, the officers’ reliance on the search warrant was objectively reasonable despite any potential shortcomings in the warrant application, and the good-faith exception to the exclusionary ...

Tagged with: Good Faith Exception Search Warrant

Where a defendant in a child-pornography case challenged the denial of his motion to suppress images and video retrieved from his cell phone, another housemate’s private search of the defendant’s phone allowed the use of the images thus retrieved, and ...

Tagged with: Cell Phone Evidence Private Search Search

Where a defendant challenged his convictions in a drug-conspiracy case, the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction for conspiracy to distribute one or more kilograms of heroin, and the government proved the amount, which was an element of the ...

Tagged with: Drug Conspiracy Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where a defendant in a child-pornography case challenged the denial of his motion to appoint his own expert to examine an agent’s laptop, the defendant did not present evidence to support his theory that ransomware on the agent’s laptop planted ...

Tagged with: Appointment of Expert Child Pornography Jury Instruction

Where a defendant in a robbery and burglary case challenged the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief, the claim of prosecutorial misconduct was not cognizable in a Rule 29.15 proceeding, the findings that counsel was not ineffective and that ...

Tagged with: Post-Conviction Relief prosecutorial misconduct

Where a defendant challenged a denial of post-conviction relief, arguing ineffective assistance of counsel, the motion court did not clearly err, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. Shelby v. State (MLW No. 74756/Case No. SD36125 – 3 pages) ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief

Where a defendant, who was found guilty of charges including second-degree murder, argued that the trial court clearly erred in denying his motion to suppress statements that he made to police, the statements were not incriminating, and the case was ...

Tagged with: Defendant’s Statements Motion To Suppress Warrantless Search

Where a defendant challenged a judgment entered against him following a jury verdict convicting him of second-degree involuntary manslaughter, the trial court did not err in allowing the jury to use a transcript of a dash-camera video, and the court ...

Tagged with: Batson challenge Involuntary Manslaughter Video Transcript

Where a defendant argued that her plea counsel was ineffective for advising her to enter an Alford plea without considering her competence and for failing to investigate and raise a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity, the defendant ...

Tagged with: Alford plea Competence effectiveness of counsel

Where a defendant challenged his sentence following a guilty plea to crimes including robbery, the appeal fell within the scope of the appeal waiver, and the plea agreement was voluntarily and knowingly entered, so the appeal is dismissed. Appeal is ...

Tagged with: appeal waiver sentencing

Where a defendant in a statutory-rape and sexual-abuse case challenged the state’s opening argument, the argument was sufficient to advise the defendant of the charges against him, and the trial court did not plainly err in failing to declare a ...

Tagged with: Prior Bad Acts Propensity Hearing