State v. Jones

JAMES EDWARD WELSH, Judge.

John David Jones appeals his conviction, after a jury trial, for domestic assault in the second degree, pursuant to Section 565.073, and kidnapping, pursuant to Section 565.110. He requests plain error review of his claims that the circuit court abused its discretion in excluding certain evidence and that the circuit court aban doned its duty of neutrality in injecting itself into the proceedings. In that Jones cannot demonstrate manifest injustice on the face of his claims, we affirm.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

Jones’s convictions arose from a series of…