STATE v. HUGHES

No. WD 67320.

272 S.W.3d 246 (2008)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Phillip A. HUGHES, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied November 25, 2008.

Application for Transfer Denied January 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick Joseph Ernst, Kansis City, MO, for appellant.

Shaun J. Mackelprang, Jefferson City, MO, for respondent.

Before JAMES M. SMART, JR., P.J., MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Sp. J., and ALOK AHUJA, J.


ALOK AHUJA, Judge.

Appellant Phillip Hughes was convicted after a bench trial of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, and was sentenced as a prior offender to two concurrent thirty-year terms of incarceration. In this direct appeal Hughes raises a single issue: whether the trial court erroneously admitted into evidence incriminating statements Hughes made while in custody and after waiving his Miranda2 rights, where the...

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