Bell v. State

*447Jamie Bell timely filed a pro se Rule 29.15 motion and counsel was appointed. Bell then retained different counsel who filed an untimely amended motion. Before either motion was ruled, our Supreme Court handed down Gittemeier v. State , 527 S.W.3d 64 (Mo. banc 2017), which declined to extend the abandonment doctrine to excuse an untimely amended motion by retained counsel. Following Gittemeier , the motion court declined to conduct an abandonment inquiry, found the claims in Bell's pro se motion were not cognizable, and denied relief.

Bell's sole point on appeal charges that the motion court…