Supreme Court of Missouri· 11/24/1992

State v. Hunter

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840 S.W.2d 850
1992 WL 308879

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holding that where no objection to trial court’s “failure to obtain a written waiver of counsel” was made at trial, despite “ample opportunity to do so,” “the standard for reviewing the claim on appeal is that of plain error”
noting that “prior contact with the criminal justice system is certainly a factor” in determining whether waiver is knowing and intelligent
discussing that a defendant's waiver of counsel was knowing and intelligent
finding “an invocation of a right to counsel which is by its terms limited in some respect does not foreclose further police questioning so long as police honor the limitation”
a defendant cannot raise issues in a post-conviction motion that the defendant and counsel knew about and could have raised with the trial court
“Issues about which defendant and his counsel knew and which could have been raised at trial and by direct appeal may not be raised by post-conviction motion.”

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Judges: Holstein

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