State of Missouri v. Rashidi Don Loper

Summary

The Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed Loper’s convictions and sentences after rejecting five evidentiary challenges. It held that the circuit court did not plainly err in admitting generalized domestic-violence testimony, did not abuse its discretion in qualifying the domestic-violence expert or admitting the officer’s testimony about the hospital doctor, and did not violate discovery or fairness requirements by admitting the treating physician’s opinion. The court also upheld exclusion of a later tire-iron incident as too remote to establish E.S.L.’s state of mind during the charged offenses.