State of Missouri, Respondent v. Kevin Johnson, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Kevin Johnson’s convictions and death sentence, rejecting challenges to juror non-disclosure, the State’s peremptory strike, jury instructions, admission of his interview and victim-impact evidence, the aggravating and mitigating circumstance instructions, and the indictment. It held that the evidence supported first-degree murder and the death sentence, and that any unpreserved claims did not establish plain error or manifest injustice. Judge Teitelman, concurring in part and dissenting in part, would have found a Batson violation, reversed the judgment, and remanded.