State v. Lloyd

SIMON, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Gregory Dean Lloyd, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis of unlawful possession of a concealable firearm, § 571.070 RSMo (1986), and sentenced to ten years in prison. On appeal, defendant contends that the trial court erred in: (1) allowing a third-party, a police officer, to testify about the victim’s out of court identification of defendant because said testimony constituted hearsay bolstering of an unimpeached witness; and, (2) refusing to grant a mistrial when the prosecutor referred to defendant’s prior convictions in…