State v. Ard

CROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, a prior offender, § 558.016.2, 1 was found guilty by a jury of statutory rape in the first degree, § 566.032, 2 and sentenced by the trial court to fifty years’ imprisonment.

Appellant brings this appeal from that judgment, maintaining the trial court erred in (1) denying Appellant’s motion to suppress an incriminatory statement he made to investigators and receiving the statement in evidence at trial, and (2) failing to declare a mistrial, sua sponte, when the prosecutor made an allegedly improper remark during closing argument.

The crime occurred November 14,…