State v. Joiner

This is a consolidated direct appeal and appeal from denial of defendant’s Rule 29.15 motion. The jury’s verdict convicted defendant on three counts: Count I, first degree murder in violation of § 565.020 RSMo 1986; Count II, assault second degree in violation of § 565.060 RSMo 1986; and Count III, armed criminal action, § 571.015 RSMo 1986. The trial court sentenced .defendant to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without parole, seven years and thirty years respectively.

Defendant raises four points of direct trial court error of which two are hearsay claims and two concern restrictions…