Legal Opinion
Scott v. State
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided March 12, 1985No. WD 35830PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Judge.
Movant appeals from the trial court’s denial of his Rule 27.26 motion for relief from his conviction of capital murder, § 565.001, RSMo 1978, and his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for 50 years. The appeal of his conviction was decided by this court in 1983, and appears at 651 S.W.2d 199 (Mo.App.1983).
We affirm the judgment of the trial court denying the Rule 27.26 motion.
One of the two grounds advanced by movant for the requested relief is the alleged ineffectiveness of counsel in counsel’s failure to object to the trial court’s sustaining the state’s challenge…
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- Seales v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1979
- Grigsby v. MabryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
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