State v. Marshall

Eddie Lee Marshall (“Defendant”) appeals his first-degree-murder conviction, see section 565.020,1 for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Defendant presents five points on appeal, claiming that the trial court erred in (1) excluding a taped telephone conversation between Defendant and his sisters, as well as not granting a mistrial when, during closing arguments, the State argued that the jurors had not “heard any other explanation” for what happened to the victim; (2) admitting the *666victim’s out-of-court statements regarding her meeting with…