Where a defendant in an unlawful-use-of-a-weapon case challenged his conviction, the trial court erred by allowing the state during voir dire to present the facts of the case in explicit detail and by allowing the state to ask bias-injecting questions, ...

Tagged with: Prejudice voir dire

Where plaintiffs in a medical-negligence case challenged the judgment against them arguing that the trial court erred by refusing to give their attorney extra time so that he could ask the insurance question after he forgot to ask it during ...

Tagged with: Extra Time Insurance Question voir dire

Where a defendant, who was convicted of charges including assault and burglary, challenged the admission into evidence of statements made to police after his arrest, the defendant did not show plain error, and the trial court was not required to ...

Tagged with: Batson challenge voir dire

(1)Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case challenged his death sentence, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by sustaining the state’s motion to strike a prospective juror for cause because the juror’s ambiguous statements created uncertainty about ...

Tagged with: death penalty Photographic Evidence voir dire

Where appellant, who was civilly committed as a sexually violent predator, argued that the trial court abused its discretion during voir dire by prohibiting him from informing the panel about the young ages of the two children involved and from ...

Tagged with: civil commitment SVP voir dire

Where a defendant in a drug-trafficking case objected to testimony from a deputy about guns other than the ones mentioned in the indictment, the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding the evidence probative of the charged drug ...

Tagged with: Deputy Testimony voir dire

  Where a defendant in an assault case argued that the state’s voir dire question of whether the use of a racial epithet justified a shooting was improper, the question was relevant because it could reveal biases, and the judgment ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Racial-Epithet Query voir dire

(1)Where a defendant argued that the trial court erred in limiting voir dire to one hour in his first-degree assault case, the defendant did not cite any case law to support his assertion that a one-hour time limit for voir ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Victim’s Plea Deal voir dire

Plaintiff alleged defendants violated the Missouri Human Rights Act by failing to promote her when she was age 55 over younger, less qualified persons, and retaliated against her by prematurely terminating her temporary positions after she filed her discrimination complaint. ...

Tagged with: age discrimination Employer - Employee Punitive Damages voir dire

State v. Lutes (MLW No. 71778/Case No. WD80030 – 34 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Prior Sex Crimes sex offender voir dire

State v. Conaway (MLW No. 71776/Case No. WD80332 – 17 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law kidnapping voir dire ‘Substantial Period’