State v. Cuypers

WAHL, Justice.

Eugene Francis Cuypers appeals from a judgment of conviction of premeditated murder in the first degree 1 for the killing of Larry Sullivan on November 26, 1989. Cuypers challenges the conviction on two grounds: first, that his federal and state constitutional rights against unreasonable searches and seizures were violated by admission at trial of two letters he had written while awaiting trial in the St. Louis County jail which were seized by his jailers without probable cause and without warrant; and, second, that the trial court committed reversible error by refusing to…