Williams v. State

EDWARD R. ARDINI, JR., JUDGE

The State appeals the Judgment of the Circuit Court of Randolph County granting Sean Williams’s Rule 29.151 amended motion for post-conviction relief following an evidentiary hearing. The judgment is reversed.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2

Williams was charged with first-degree assault, kidnapping, forcible sodomy, forcible rape, and armed criminal action. At his trial, nine witnesses testified, including the victim and one of her assailants. The evidence established that the victim was staying at a hotel with Michael Wright where she regularly got high on…