State v. Carter

NANCY STEFFEN RAHMEYER, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Jessie R. Carter (“Defendant”) was convicted on three counts of first degree murder under § 565.020. 1 On appeal, Defendant alleges that the trial court erred when it denied his request for a mistrial following a series of questions from the prosecutor on cross-examination regarding whether the knife wound on one of the victims was smaller because it had been inflicted with Defendant’s knife rather than the knife of a co-defendant, Mark Christeson (“Christe-son”). Defendant charges that the state was thereby allowed to present two…