State of Missouri v. Alvin S. Spears

Introduction

Appellant Alvin S. Spears, Jr. (“Spears”) appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis (“trial court”) finding him guilty of felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. Spears argues that the trial court erred in (1) allowing Officer Kenneth Allen’s (“Allen”) late endorsement as a witness for the State, (2) overruling Spears’s motion to suppress oral statements he made to the arresting officers, Allen and Officer Adam Feaman (“Feaman”), as well as his objection to those statements at trial, and (3)…