Gary Dale Lee Missouri Cases

Gary Dale Lee appealed his convictions for two counts of statutory rape, arguing both insufficient evidence and that the trial court erred in denying his right to self-representation. The appellate court reversed Lee's convictions and remanded for a new trial, holding that the trial court improperly denied his timely, unequivocal, knowing, and intelligent request to represent himself by assessing his technical legal knowledge. The court affirmed the trial court's method of calculating the victim's age from birth, rejecting Lee's argument that age should be calculated from conception under section 1.205 RSMo.