Laws v. O'Brien

STEPHAN, Presiding Judge.

Leonard Laws appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of respondent W.H.S. O’Brien, an attorney and defendant in Laws’ action for legal malpractice. The gist of Laws’ claim against respondent is that, after Laws was convicted of capital murder and sentenced by the Circuit Court of Greene County on April 18, 1982, to life imprisonment without probation or parole for fifty years, respondent failed to prosecute Laws’ appeal in a timely fashion and the appeal was dismissed. The appeal was later reinstated and the conviction affirmed. State v. Laws, 699 S.W.2d 102…