Section 7.29 Time Constraints

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F. (§7.29) Time Constraints

It is not an abuse of discretion for a trial court to limit a party’s time for voir dire to one hour and forty-five minutes. Pollard v. Whitener, 965 S.W.2d 281, 288 (Mo. App. W.D. 1998). In dicta, that court mentioned that it did not encourage fixed time limits and that a judge’s declaration to counsel after lunch recess that counsel’s time on voir dire will be limited to thirty minutes is unnecessarily burdensome. Id. at 287. In Smith v....