Jon Keith Smith v. Michael Groose Missouri Attorney General

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• holding that the prosecution’s use of contradictory theories for different defendants in a murder trial violated due process
• holding that the prosecution’s use of contradictory theories for different defendants in a murder trial violated due process
• concluding that a defendant is deprived of due process if the prosecution manipulates evidence to pursue as many convictions as possible
• holding that arguing factually contradictory theories to get multiple convictions is fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process
• concluding that due process forbids the prosecution from pursuing inconsistent, irreconcilable theories to secure convictions against two or more defendants in prosecutions for the same offenses arising out of the same event
• stating that, “[t]o violate due process, an inconsistency must exist at the core of the prosecutor’s cases against defendants for the same crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).