Brown v. State

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Chief Judge.

Randall Brown appeals from the circuit court’s judgment to deny his Rule 24.035 postconviction relief motion after an evi-dentiary hearing. Brown asserts that the circuit court erred in accepting his guilty plea to the charge of trafficking in the first degree because no factual basis existed for the plea. 1 We agree and reverse and remand for the circuit court to vacate and set aside Brown’s guilty plea.

Our review of a circuit court’s ruling on a Rule 24.035 motion is limited to determining whether its findings and conclusions are clearly erroneous. Rule…