Chamberlain v. State

STEPHAN, Presiding Judge.

Movant sought Rule 27.26 relief from the judgments of conviction entered upon his pleas of guilty to burglary in the second degree and failure to return to confinement. As grounds he alleged his counsel was ineffective, his pleas were involuntary, and the state was guilty of selective and retaliatory prosecution. The trial court denied relief without affording movant an evidentiary hearing. Movant appeals. We affirm.

Movant asserts that had the trial court granted him an evidentiary hearing he would have established his guilty pleas were invalidated by his counsel’s…