Supreme Court of Missouri· 4/12/2011

State v. Bowman

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337 S.W.3d 679
2011 Mo. LEXIS 119
2011 WL 2078532

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noting that'the trial court has broad discretion in determining the sufficiency of the chain of custody
evidence that one was a suspect in similar murders did not directly connect him to charged murder, where no physical evidence linked him to crime
similar statement in the context of two witnesses’ visual identification at trial of a victim’s underwear
alternative perpetrator evidence inadmissible where defendant “relie[d] solely on [the alternative perpetrator]’s alleged opportunity to commit the murder and speculative connections to link [him] with [the] murder.”
“[T]he fact that [the alternative perpetrator] was investigated as a suspect and may have had an opportunity to murder [the victim] does not establish the requisite direct connection to her death”

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Judges: Richard B. Teitelman

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