Dodd v. State

DON E. BURRELL, Presiding Judge.

Herbert Alan Dodd, Jr. (“Movant”) appeals the denial after an evidentiary hearing of his amended Rule 24.035 1 motion (“motion”) seeking to vacate his guilty plea to a reduced charge of second-degree murder on the grounds that his plea counsel incorrectly advised him that certain evidence would not be admissible at his trial. Movant claims this improper advice rendered his guilty plea unknowing and involuntary and that, absent that ineffective assistance of counsel, Movant would not have pleaded guilty but would have insisted on going to trial on the State’s…