State of Missouri v. Michael E. Amick

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• holding that objections must be sufficiently specific to be preserved for appellate review
• stating the purpose of the rules for preservation of error is “to enable the court—the trial court first, then the appellate court—to define the precise claim made by the defendant.”
• “To preserve a claim of error, counsel must object with sufficient specificity to apprise the trial court of the grounds for the objection”
• “[Tjrial judges are presumed to know the law and to apply it in making decisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).