Legal Opinion

State v. Goers

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided May 27, 2014No. ED 100354PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DOWD, JR., J.

Christopher Goers appeals from the judgment on his convictions by a jury of two counts of statutory sodomy committed against his daughter, M.G., when she was five. Goers challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, comments made during the State’s closing argument and the admission of certain evidence. We affirm.

M.G. was 18 at the time she testified at trial. By her own and all other accounts, M.G. had a close relationship with Goers and spent a lot of time alone with him while she was growing up, both at their family home when her mother was working or out of town with M.G.’s two…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. State v. GrimSupreme Court of Missouri · 1993
  2. State v. ChaneySupreme Court of Missouri · 1998
  3. State v. EdwardsSupreme Court of Missouri · 2003
  4. State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 2009
  5. State v. BowmanSupreme Court of Missouri · 2011

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. BostonMissouri Court of Appeals · 2017
  2. State v. McElroyMissouri Court of Appeals · 2017
  3. State v. EvansMissouri Court of Appeals · 2018
  4. Woodward v. AdamsDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 2024

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