Harvey v. State

CRIST, Judge.

Movant appeals the denial of his Rule 27.26 Motion after an evidentiary hearing with appointed counsel. We affirm.

Movant claims he was denied effective assistance of counsel because his attorney coerced him into pleading guilty. He seeks to have his guilty pleas on four counts of armed robbery and concurrent fifteen year sentences vacated.

Our inquiry is the extent to which counsel’s actions affected the voluntariness of the pleas. Haynes v. State, 565 S.W.2d 191 (Mo.App.1978). Movant testified that his attorney sought to have him plead guilty because “they had too much evidence…