Legal Opinion

Rowling v. State

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided January 19, 1988No. 52782Published

1Opinion of the Court

CRIST, Judge.

Movant appeals the denial of his Rule 27.26 motion after an evidentiary hearing. Movant sought to vacate his convictions of rape, sodomy, kidnapping and attempted first degree robbery. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of thirty years each on the rape and sodomy counts and consecutive terms of fifteen and five years on the kidnapping and attempted robbery counts. We affirm.

Movant complains of fundamental unfairness in the failure of his lawyer to seek disclosure of, and the prosecutor’s failure to disclose, a letter written by victim’s school principal which revealed the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Sanders v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1987
  3. Maxey v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1986

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