State v. Rector

WEIER, Judge.

While incarcerated in a penal institution in Arizona, Jerry W. Rector sent a letter to the public defender’s office in Jefferson County, Missouri, stating that he had pled guilty to three counts of first degree murder before a circuit court in Jefferson County because he was “continuously harassed” by his lawyer into pleading guilty even though his lawyer admitted that he knew that defendant Rector was not guilty of committing the murders. The public defender’s office forwarded this letter to the court which had sentenced Rector (to three concurrent life sentences) with the…