State v. Barnes

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Defendant, Thomas Ray Barnes, was convicted after a jury trial of murder in the first degree, in violation of § 565.020, RSMo.1986, and robbery in the first degree, in violation of § 569.020, RSMo.1986. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of twenty-five years and life imprisonment without parole. Defendant appeals, claiming: 1) the trial court erred by permitting two psychologists to testify that mild mental retardation is not a mental disease or defect under Missouri law; 2) the trial court erred by allowing the state’s rebuttal witness, a psychologist, to read…