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Wilkes v. State

Citations

  • 82 S.W.3d 925
  • 2002 Mo. LEXIS 91
  • 2002 WL 31103237

How courts have described this case

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  • finding evi-dentiary hearing was warranted on ineffectiveness claim for counsel’s failure to present eyewitness testimony that supported movant’s defense
  • “An evidentiary hearing may only be denied when the record conclusively shows that the movant is not entitled to relief”
  • “The mere assertion that conduct of trial counsel was ‘trial strategy’ is not sufficient to preclude a movant from obtaining post- conviction relief based on a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel”

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Judges: Teitelman, Limbaugh, Wolff, Benton, Stith, Price, Dowd, White

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