State v. Shafer

' In his motion for rehearing, Shafer claims that this Court’s initial opinion ignores his Rule 29.15 pleadings. He claims that those pleadings, read broadly, aver that he has a right to a presentence investigation and that the plea court’s decision to sentence him to death without a knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver of that right is prejudicial per se. The motion court agreed,, expressly finding that Shafer had a right to a presentence investigation because of section 557.026.1, RSMo 1994, and that the plea court had failed to honor that right or seek a valid waiver of the right from…