State v. Shaw
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD H. AHRENS, Judge.
Defendant, Phillip Shaw, appeals from a judgment on convictions of one count each of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Defendant claims he was prejudiced by the following trial court errors: (1) admitting an inculpatory hearsay statement; (2) overruling his race and gender Batson objections; and (3) permitting the State to misdefine the term “deliberation” as an element of first-degree murder during closing arguments so as to lower its burden of proof on that element. We affirm.
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- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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