Jones v. State

CRIST, Judge.

Defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action. The trial court sentenced Defendant to consecutive life sentences for the murder charges and concurrent life sentences for the armed criminal action charges. Following an evidentiary hearing, the motion court subsequently denied Defendant’s Rule 24.035 motion for postconviction relief. Defendant appeals.

On November 1, 1990, Defendant returned home from work to find two boys, Arlando Stamps (age eighteen) and Laron Washington (age nineteen), in his house with his two daughters.…