Taylor v. State

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

This is an appeal by the state from the granting of Raymond Lee Taylor’s Rule 27.26 motion. Respondent Taylor was convicted of murder in the second degree for a prison killing and sentenced to forty years in prison. His conviction was affirmed by this court in State v. Taylor, 602 S.W.2d 820 (Mo.App.1980).

From the time of Taylor’s first pro se 27.26 motion in November, 1984, he has alleged he was provided ineffective assistance of counsel. Among the numerous grounds of ineffectiveness alleged was his trial counsel’s failure to interview and call to testify specific fellow…