Williams v. State

Though this is a postconviction proceeding, the majority treats the cause as if on direct appeal from the original criminal trial and mistakenly fails to address the specific claim raised by appellant in his Rule 24.035 motion. Appellant contends “his trial attorney was ineffective for failing to correct the trial judge, who at the close of the hearing on the guilty plea stated that under the law, he was ‘compelled to run sentences consecutively in these cases.’ ” Defense counsel was not required to so “correct” the trial judge, who accurately assessed his duty under the law extant at the…