STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. ANDREW JAMES VRBA

STATE OF MISSOURI, ) ) Plaintiff-Respondent, ) ) v. ) No. SD36916 ) ANDREW JAMES VRBA, ) Filed: January 11, 2022 ) Defendant-Appellant. ) APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF GREENE COUNTY Honorable Calvin R. Holden AFFIRMED Andrew James Vrba (“Defendant”) appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and the trial court’s statutorily-mandated sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of probation or parole (“LWOP”). See section 565.020.1 In two points, Defendant, 18 years old at the time of the murder, claims the trial court: (1) erred in sentencing him to LWOP because the sentence…