STATE v. KEMP

No. SC 87371.

212 S.W.3d 135 (2007)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Lamont C. KEMP, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

January 30, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret M. Johnston, Office of Public Defender, Columbia, for Appellant.

Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., Karen L. Kramer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for Respondent.


WILLIAM RAY PRICE, JR., Judge.

A jury convicted Lamont Kemp of felonious restraint and unlawful use of a weapon for holding his girlfriend, Jackie Washington, hostage at gunpoint beginning the evening of October 10, 2003, and ending at approximately 8:30 a.m. the following day. Because the state was unable to procure Jackie as a witness at trial, it introduced evidence of Jackie's out-of-court statements through the testimony of Kemp's neighbors and a portion of the...

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