State v. Cooks

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

Defendant, Gary Cooks, appeals from his judgment of conviction by jury for robbery in the first degree, § 569.020, RSMo 1986. The St. Louis County Circuit Court sentenced defendant as a prior offender, §§ 558.016, 557.036.4, RSMo 1986, to serve a twenty-year term of imprisonment. We affirm.

Defendant raises four points on appeal: (1) defendant claims the trial court erred in failing to suppress his confession to police, officers, because the police officers acquired his confession in violation of his Miranda right to counsel; (2) defendant alleges the trial court erred in…