Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion for a new trial, arguing that the trial court had authority to hear his ineffective-assistance claim, the claim was not timely raised before the court, so the court did not err ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The district court ruled that defendant’s prior Missouri conviction for resisting arrest qualified as a “crime of violence” and calculated defendant’s base offense level and guidelines range accordingly. ...

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Where a defendant challenged his conviction for felony resisting arrest, the evidence was sufficient to allow a reasonable fact-finder to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the trooper was arresting the defendant for the felony of attempted assault on him ...

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State v. Sloan (MLW No. 72060/Case No. ED105650 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)

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State v. Townsend (MLW No. 71767/Case No. SD35077 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)

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State v. Smith (MLW No. 71679/Case No. WD80430 -7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ardini Jr., J.)

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State v. Ajak (MLW No. 71527/Case No. SC96333 – 21 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Stith, J.; Draper, Russell and Breckenridge, JJ., concur; Powell, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Fischer, C.J. and Wilson, J., concur in opinion of Powell, J.)

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City of St. Louis v. Jones (MLW No. 71324/Case No. ED105119 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Mental State Resisting Arrest Sufficiency Of Evidence

State v. Ajak (MLW No. 70195/Case No. WD78932 – 56 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Definition Of ‘Arrest’ Resisting Arrest Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where a sheriff told defendant to place his hands behind his back and the officers said that the defendant could talk with them or take a ride with them but did not say they were arresting him, , the defendant ...

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State v. Burnett (MLW No. 69329/Case No. ED102459 – 16 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)

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