State v. Wright

PHILLIP R. GARRISON, Judge.

Vernon F. Wright (“Defendant”) appeals the jury conviction of first-degree statutory sodomy, a violation of Section 566.062. 1 He contends that the trial court erred in failing to sua sponte declare a mistrial or issue a curative instruction when a witness testified that, in her opinion, there was no reason to disbelieve the victim, and in allowing the prosecutor, in closing arguments, to ask the jury to put themselves in the victim’s shoes because such personalizing caused manifest injustice and a miscarriage of justice. We affirm.

On appeal, we review the evidence…