142742P.pdf   12/19/2019  United States  v.  Charles Hall
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-2742
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Loken and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The district court did not 
   err in trying defendant with his co-defendant in this murder prosecution; 
   no error in submitting the issue of "grave indifference to human life" to 
   the jury in the penalty phase of the prosecution; the evidence was 
   sufficient for a jury to find defendant killed the victim in an especially 
   heinous, cruel or depraved manner; claim that jury failed to consider 
   mitigating factors rejected; no error in restricting the defense's 
   cross-examination of a psychiatric expert; no error in allowing the 
   government to prove defendant's future dangerousness by evidence of past 
   threats, his pre-murder behavior in prison and his numerous past crimes; 
   no error in allowing the government to introduce two letters defendant 
   sent to the government before trial; no error in excluding defendant's 
   "comparative proportionality" evidence; no error in directing the jury to 
   continue its deliberations.