Anderson v. State

PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

Terrance Anderson appeals the judgment overruling his Rule 29.15 motion for post-conviction relief from his sentence of death for first-degree murder. On appeal, Mr. Anderson claims that the judge presiding over his post-conviction proceedings erred in overruling his motion to disqualify the judge for cause because, on the record of the proceedings, a reasonable person would find an appearance of impropriety in the judge’s references to extrajudicial information from the foreperson of the jury in Mr. Anderson’s first trial and statements indicating that the judge…