Christopher Lamar Jones Missouri Cases

Christopher Jones appealed his convictions for second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and tampering with physical evidence. He raised five points, including a constitutional challenge to a statute prohibiting appeal bonds, a claim of wrongful pretrial detention, and challenges to the admission of prior bad acts evidence and the prosecutor's closing argument. The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed all convictions, finding no error. The court held that the constitutional challenge was merely colorable, the detention claim was waived, and the evidentiary and closing argument claims lacked merit or were unpreserved.