Defendant appealed from his conviction of statutory sodomy and child molestation. On appeal, defendant challenged the trial court’s decision to allow the state to expand the dates charged in each of the counts from the dates charged in the information, ...

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Defendant appealed from his conviction for first-degree felony statutory sodomy. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court erred when it made statements to two members of the jury identifying defendant and his counsel as the parties who had accused ...

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Defendant appealed from his conviction on four counts of statutory sodomy involving two victims. On appeal, defendant challenged the exclusion of a DSS employee’s testimony from evidence and also challenged the jury instructions on the verdict director for two of ...

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Defendant was convicted of first-degree statutory sodomy and sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court, despite defendant’s objection, erroneously allowed the child victim to testify while wearing a jacket from Bikers Against Child Abuse because ...

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  Where a defendant challenged his convictions for statutory sodomy and child molestation, the trial court did not err in overruling the defendant’s objection to jury instructions on the statutory sodomy counts because any variance in the definition of “deviate ...

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Defendant was charged with statutory sodomy. Following several hours of deliberation, the jury reported that it was split 11-1 and could not come to a unanimous verdict. The trial court granted the state’s request to provide the “hammer instruction” to ...

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State v. Edwards (MLW No. 71135/Case No. ED104587 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, James M. Dowd, J.)

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State v. McClure (MLW No. 68849/Case No. WD78385 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)

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State v. Johnson (MLW No. 68660/Case No. ED101974 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)

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State v. Bennish (MLW No. 68404/Case No. ED101370 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

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State v. Jackson (MLW No. 66876/Case No. ED100328 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd III, J.)

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