Court Opinion

ID: 9755643
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:45:17.825067+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:09.970179
License: Public Domain

KENNETH M. ROMINES, Judge,
concurring.
Concurring in result.
I concur in the result reached. I do not concur in the sundry footnotes, nor the analyses advanced.
To me, in a very literal sense, less than 0.01 grams clearly demonstrates an insufficiency of evidence such that reversal is required. We have forgotten what comes after de mimimis — non curat lex. I believe, however, I am precluded by State v. Young 427 S.W.2d 510 (Mo.1968), from reaching this conclusion.
The Court grants plain error review, and finds a miscarriage of justice. This record justifies both conclusions. Simply, *196there is no evidence in the record which ties defendant to the purse. The purse was all the prosecutor had, he used, it was error.