Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District / Nov 17, 2020
State of Missouri, Respondent, vs. Trenton Forster, Appellant.
Trenton E. Forster appealed his convictions for first-degree murder, second-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, and armed criminal action. He challenged the mandatory life without parole sentence as unconstitutional for an eighteen-year-old and argued the trial court erred in admitting certain evidence. The Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment, holding that the constitutional challenge was foreclosed by Supreme Court precedent and that the evidentiary rulings were not an abuse of discretion.