Wiles v. State

KAROHL, Judge.

Defendant appeals trial court’s denial of 27.26 relief after evidentiary hearing. Two consecutive life terms were imposed according to a written plea agreement wherein capital murder charges were reduced to second degree murder. As a part of the plea agreement two consecutive fifteen year terms were imposed on previous and unrelated sodomy charges after defendant waived probation revocation hearings.

The 27.26 petition alleged that the pleas were not made knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily and with a full understanding of the consequences because of mental defect and the…