State v. East

TURNAGE, Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal in which East challenges his conviction of offering violence to a corrections officer, § 217.385, RSMo 1986, and the denial of a Rule 29.15 motion for post-conviction relief, after an evidentiary hearing. A jury convicted East of offering violence, and the court sentenced him as a prior and persistent offender to three years imprisonment, to run consecutively to the terms to which he had been sentenced already.

East filed a motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to Rule 29.15, alleging that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The…