Copeland v. State

KENNETH W. SHRUM, Presiding Judge.

Randall Copeland (“Movant”) sought post-conviction relief via a Rule 29.15 motion after he was convicted of statutory sodomy in the first degree (§ 566.062). 1 In his motion, Movant alleged that his trial lawyer was ineffective for failing to introduce into evidence at the criminal trial the deposition testimony of the child victim in the case. After an evidentiary hearing, the motion court vacated Movant’s conviction and sentence.

The State appeals. We remand the case to the trial court. We do so because the order appealed from does not comply with Rule…