State v. Burton

LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, Judge.

The defendant, Christopher Burton, appeals the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County following a trial in which the court convicted him of the class-A misdemeanor of third-degree assault of a law-enforcement officer, in violation of section 565.083 RSMo. (Supp. 2011).1 The defendant fled a lawful stop and led a trooper on a foot chase. During the foot chase, the trooper sustained an injury. By fleeing a lawful stop by a law-enforcement officer, the defendant demonstrated a conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk of…