Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District / Date unavailable
State of Missouri vs. Dustin Charles Love
Dustin Love appealed his conviction for first-degree rape of his step-daughter. He argued the trial court plainly erred by admitting evidence of his abuse of another child and by not intervening sua sponte during the prosecutor's closing argument, which he contended was an improper future dangerousness argument. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, affirmed the judgment, finding no manifest injustice or outcome-determinative error in either claim under plain error review.