Mangum v. State

David L. Mangum (“Movant”) was charged with seven counts of exposing another person to HIV. See section 191.677.1 The State dismissed five of those counts in exchange for Movant’s plea of guilty to the two remaining counts. The trial court sentenced Movant to consecutive terms of 15 years’ imprisonment for each count. Thereafter, Movant filed an amended Rule 24.035 motion for post-conviction relief alleging his plea counsel was ineffective because she “unreasonably failed to. file and litigate a motion asserting that application of section 191.677 deprived Movant of equal protection under the…