State v. Robinson

LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, JUDGE

A jury convicted Keenan Robinson of unlawfully using a weapon, in violation of Section 571.030.1(4), for exhibiting a firearm in an angry or threatening manner in the presence of Elizabeth Cooper.1 Ms. Cooper invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refused to testify at trial. In her absence, the trial court permitted the State to introduce a tape of Ms. Cooper’s 911 call, as well as officers’ testimony relating Ms. Cooper’s statements made at the scene. The trial court admitted the evidence under the excited-utterance exception to the…