Adam D. Bridgewater v. State of Missouri

Adam Bridgewater (“Bridgewater”) filed a motion to recall mandate on October 24, 2014 (“Motion”). An exhibit attached to the Motion was missing from trial counsel’s file at the time of Bridgewater’s Rule 24.035 hearing and is material to his claim of ineffective assistance which alleged .that trial counsel affirmatively misrepresented that Bridgewater would receive a single life sentence 1 if he pleaded guilty. The motion court’s judgment denying the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel relied exclusively on a credibility determination favoring trial counsel’s testimony that appears to…