Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District / Sep 6, 2023
STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent vs. JOHN WILLIS HOUGH, Appellant
John Hough was convicted of two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy. On appeal, he requested plain error review of a prosecutor's closing argument comment regarding his post-arrest silence, arguing it violated his constitutional rights. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, affirmed the judgment, declining plain error review because Hough failed to establish substantial grounds for believing a manifest injustice or miscarriage of justice occurred due to the isolated nature of the comment.