Supreme Court of Missouri· 3/25/1997

State v. Carson

Citations

941 S.W.2d 518
1997 Mo. LEXIS 35
1997 WL 134373

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holding when properly administered by adequately trained personnel, HGN test admissible as evidence of intoxication
holding: “If an instruction following MAI-CR3d conflicts with the substantive law, any court should decline to follow MAI-CR3d or its Notes on Use.”
finding that the “MAI–CR and its Notes on Use are ‘not binding’ to the extent they conflict with the substantive law
holding evidence of cocaine habit admissible under motive exception to general exclusion of other crimes evidence where witness testified that the defendant had committed burglary to support that habit
noting that “[t]he jury could reasonably infer [the defendant ran to avoid arrest, and his motive to shoot [the officer] was to- avoid a return to prison”
while instruction in death penalty case “does not utilize the precise statutory words, it nevertheless employs terms which have been determined as proper substitutes by our courts”

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Judges: Benton, Holstein, Robertson, Covington, White, Limbaugh, Price

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