State v. Brown

*14RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Judge.

Anthony Brown appeals his convictions for murder in the second degree, section 565.021 1 and armed criminal action, section 571.015. At trial, Brown claimed self-defense. During closing arguments, the trial court permitted the State to use a gun as a demonstrative exhibit to rebut Brown’s self-defense argument. The State used the gun to show that the victim could not have carried and drawn the gun as Brown asserted. There was no evidence that the gun used as an exhibit in closing arguments was similar in size or shape to the victim’s gun. Consequently, the judgment…