Robert Childs v. State of Missouri

KURT S. ODENWALD, Presiding Judge.

Introduction

Appellant Robert Childs (“Childs”) appeals from the judgment of the motion court denying his Rule 29.15 1 motion for post-conviction relief without an evidentia-ry hearing. Childs was convicted by a jury of first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle. This Court affirmed Childs’s conviction on direct appeal in State v. Childs, 362 S.W.3d 491 (Mo.App.E.D.2012). Childs subsequently filed a motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to Rule 29.15, alleging his trial counsel was ineffective for: (1) failing to introduce photographs of the scene where…