Legal Opinion

Wills v. State

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided July 20, 2010No. WD 71271PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GARY D. WITT, Judge.

Frederick Wills appeals the circuit court’s judgment denying his motion for post-conviction relief. After being charged in Boone County Circuit Court with one count of kidnapping (Section 565.110), 1 one count of forcible sodomy (Section 566.060), and one count of forcible rape (Section 566.030), Wills reached a plea agreement with the State where, in exchange for his guilty plea to the rape charge, the State agreed to dismiss the other two counts. Pursuant to this agreement, Wills entered into an “open plea” on the rape charge and was subsequently sentenced by the circuit…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  3. Henderson v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  4. Zink v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 2009
  5. State v. HunterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1992

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Gerlt v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 2011
  2. Thomas A. McDaniel v. State of MissouriMissouri Court of Appeals · 2014
  3. Alyssa D. Bustamante v. State of MissouriMissouri Court of Appeals · 2015
  4. In re A.C.C.Missouri Court of Appeals · 2018
  5. Brandon Roberts v. State of MissouriMissouri Court of Appeals · 2016

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