Legal Opinion

State v. Weatherford

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 9, 1982No. 44353PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CLEMENS, Senior Judge..

Movant-defendant Vanessa Weatherford appeals the summary denial of her Rule 27.26 motion. Thereby she challenged two concurrent seven year sentences imposed upon her guilty pleas to felonious stealing.

*669Defendant here contends the motion court erred because her guilty pleas were defective; this because she was induced to plead guilty by promised recommendations of both state and defense counsel, to which the trial court had agreed, that she would get concurrent one year jail sentences.

The record supports her contention, with one stark exception. It shows the promised jail…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Brown v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1980

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Finley v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1994
  2. Cupp v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1998
  3. JOHN R. THOMAS v. STATE OF MISSOURIMissouri Court of Appeals · 2020

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