State v. Weiss

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Presiding Judge.

John M. Weiss appeals a jury verdict finding him guilty of stealing in violation of Section 570.030 RSMo 1994, for which he was sentenced to 6 months in the county jail and ordered to pay a $2,500.00 fine. He asserts that the prosecutor committed plain error constituting manifest injustice when he intentionally and deliberately misrepresented to the jury that Defendant had no documents to support his claim that he thought the money he was accused of stealing was money he had received in a “buy-out” from his old employer. In fact, the record is clear that…