Brown v. State

FLANIGAN, Presiding Judge.

Movant Gary Leon Brown appeals from a denial, without evidentiary hearing, of his Rule 24.0351 motion, seeking to vacate a judgment and sentence on a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree. Movant was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Movant’s sole point is that he was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his motion, and the trial court erred in ruling otherwise, because the motion pleaded facts which, if proved, would warrant relief and which are not refuted by the record in that the motion pleaded: (1) Movant was coerced to plead guilty in order to be released…