State v. VanHoose

This ease involves two consolidated appeals brought by Meredith Lee VanHoose (hereinafter “Mr. VanHoose”). The first appeal derives from a September 8, 2000, order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County sentencing Mr. VanHoose to life imprisonment with mercy and to a consecutive sentence of forty years imprisonment 1 following his conditional plea of guilty to one count of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder. 2 The second appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County denying Mr. VanHoose’s request for habeas corpus relief, which request was based upon an…