Louis James Adams v. State of Missouri

Introduction

Appellant • Louis James Adams (“Adams”) appeals from the judgment of the motion court denying his Rule 24.035 motion for post-conviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. The record before us suggests that Adams’s amended motion for post-conviction relief was untimely filed. Because the motion court did not make an independent inquiry into whether Adams was abandoned by post-conviction counsel as a result of the untimely filing, we áre compelled by the Supreme Court’s holding in Moore v. State to reverse the motion court’s judgment and remand the case to the motion court to…