Court Opinion

ID: 9666555
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:19:29.287999+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:44.247622
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PAUL M. SPINDEN, Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the opinion of Judge Harold L. Lowenstein. Because Butler did not object to Darvine Duvenci’s opinion that “within a reasonable degree of certainty” the hairs on the victim’s clothing came from Butler and that the matching of two hairs from two different parts of the body is like “double the significance of evidence,” the circuit court properly admitted the testimony for the jury’s determination. Washington by Washington v. Barnes Hospital, 897 S.W.2d 611 (Mo. banc 1995); Callahan v. Cardinal Glennon Hospital, 863 S.W.2d 852 (Mo. banc 1993). Because of the lack of objection, we need not concern ourselves with whether the content of Duvenci’s testimony was proper in the absence of plain error. The circuit court did not err in admitting evidence offered without objection. Without error, we have no basis for plain error review.