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- Title: State Missouri v. Robert T. Sidebottom
- Author : Supreme Court of New Hampshire
- Release Date : January 14, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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Appellant Robert T. Sidebottom was convicted in a jury trial of first degree murder, ร§ 565.020, RSMo 1986. The jury found aggravating circumstances, ร§ 565.032, RSMo 1986, and imposed a sentence of death. Appellant claims the following points constitute reversible error: the inadvertent submission of evidence of prior crimes to the jury during their deliberations; comments made by the prosecutor in closing argument; the trial courts refusal to allow certain questions during cross-examination of a State witness; the submission of certain statements made by defendant to the police; the trial courts refusal to allow defense counsel to describe the nature of execution to the jury; the sufficiency of the evidence; proportionality of the punishment in this case to that in similar cases; and the constitutionality of the death penalty. We have exclusive appellate jurisdiction, Mo. Const. art. V, ร§ 3. We also review the sentence as mandated by ร§ 565.035, RSMo 1986. Affirmed.