Johnson v. State

VICTOR C. HOWARD, Judge.

Robert Johnson appeals the denial of his Rule 24.035 motion for post-conviction relief after an evidentiary hearing. Johnson claims that his guilty pleas were involuntary, unknowing, and unintelligent due to his counsel’s ineffective assistance and the trial court’s failure to establish a factual basis for the plea. The judgment is reversed and remanded.

Background

In August 2007, Robert Johnson was charged with three counts of distributing a controlled substance near a school in violation of section 195.214, RSMo,1 a class A felony. The statute provides that:

[a] person…