State v. Wilson

Sherron Wilson appeals from his convictions for violence to an offender housed in a department correctional center, section 217.385, RSMo 2000, and second degree assault, section 565.060, RSMo 2000, and concurrent sentences of ten and seven years imprisonment. He claims that the trial court abused its discretion in sua sponte dismissing a venireperson, who was deaf, based on the court’s inability to accommodate the venireperson’s disability. The judgment of convictions is affirmed.

Mr. Wilson was an inmate at the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center when he was charged with violence to an…