Supreme Court of Missouri· 5/30/2000

State v. Ferguson

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20 S.W.3d 485
2000 Mo. LEXIS 40
2000 WL 714657

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holding that admitting unadjudicated bad acts during the penalty phase did not violate due process
holding a prospective juror’s statement in support of the death penalty alone was not inflammatory or prejudicial where “there was no suggestion that [the defendant], himself, deserved the death penalty, nor any attempt to encourage other venirepersons to impose the death penalty.”
Defendant’s “remedy is not to exclude the evidence, but to cross-examine the state’s experts and to call expert witnesses of his own” concerning DNA evidence
a claim of newly discovered evidence “is not cognizable in a Rule 29.15 motion, even where properly pleaded and preserved”
'[C]ounsel's failure to present additional evidence that would have been cumulative does not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.'
both affirming denial of ineffective assistance claims based on sleeping jurors because nothing in the post-conviction record or in the evidence at trial indicated that any juror was sleeping

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