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State v. Chism

Citations

  • 252 S.W.3d 178
  • 2008 Mo. App. LEXIS 607
  • 2008 WL 2184853

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  • not improper for prosecutor to argue that, to find defendant not guilty, jury would have to believe that State’s witnesses lied
  • “denial of the act .does not make intent an issue simply because it is an element of the charge”
  • argument that the State charged defendant with a particular offense, because it believed that the evidence established that offense, was not improper; “the prosecutor's comments did not imply that it based the belief of defendant's guilt on any outside facts”

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Judges: Lowenstein, Ellis, Newton

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