State v. Aikens

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Defendant Levar Aikens appeals his convictions for first degree murder and armed criminal action in violation of Sections 565.020.1 and 571.015 RSMo 1994,1 for which he was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of probation or parole and life *794imprisonment, respectively. On appeal, Defendant alleges that the trial court erred in admitting hearsay testimony as to statements made by the victim in the weeks before her death, and that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress his statements to Detective Cowdrey because,…