State v. Dean

SPINDEN, Judge.

Rodney Dean asserts four points of error in this appeal challenging his convictions of first degree robbery and armed criminal action and challenging the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion for postconviction relief. He complains (1) that the state did not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, (2) that the trial court permitted the prosecution to use its peremptory strikes to remove five venire persons for racial reasons, (3) that the trial court wrongly sentenced him as a Class X offender because it did not apply § 558.019 as recently amended, and (4) that his trial attorney…