State of Missouri v. Jeffrey Scott Sauerbry

Following a jury trial, Jeffery S. Sauer-bry was convicted of first-degree murder in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. Sauerbry appeals. He claims that his constitutional right to confront the witnesses against him was violated when the court permitted a pathologist to testify to her opinions concerning the nature and cause of the victim’s wounds, even though the testifying pathologist had not conducted the victim’s autopsy. Sauerbry also challenges the trial court’s refusal to permit him to impeach one of the State’s principal witnesses with allegedly false testimony she had provided in a…