Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District / Date unavailable
STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. HUNTER KELLEY, Defendant-Appellant
Hunter Kelley appealed his convictions for child endangerment and child abuse, arguing that the State's expert physicians gave inadmissible hearsay testimony and violated his Confrontation Clause rights by relying on radiology reports from a non-testifying physician. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's judgment. It held that the expert testimony was not hearsay because experts may rely on evidence reasonably relied upon by others in their field, and the testifying experts presented their own conclusions. The court declined plain error review for Kelley's Confrontation Clause claims, finding he failed to establish manifest injustice.