State of Missouri v. Ivan Dominguez-Rodriguez

Introduction

Ivan Dominguez-Rodriguez (Defendant) appeals the judgment and sentence of the Circuit Court of the City of St, Louis entered after a jury convicted him of first-degree assault, armed criminal action, and first-degree burglary. In four points relied on, Defendant claim? that the trial court (1) plainly erred in submitting Instruction No. 9 for armed criminal action; (2) clearly erred in overruling his Batson 1 objections to the prosecutor’s strikes of two African-American venirepersons; and (3) abused its discretion by permitting the prosecutor to argue in closing argument that…