Witcher v. State

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Movant, Robert Witcher, appeals the denial of his Rule 24.035 motion after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

On February 23, 1988, movant pled guilty to attempted forcible rape. He was sentenced, on April 8, 1988, to forty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. On July 13,1988, movant filed a timely pro se motion under Rule 24.035 maintaining that he was coerced into pleading guilty by his family and by counsel. An unverified amended motion was timely filed on November 18, 1988. After a two-day eviden-tiary hearing, the motion court denied mov-ant’s…