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75 S.W.3d 745

Starr v. State

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 5, 2002

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 2002-03-05

Decided 2002-03-05

¶1ORDER

PER CURIAM.

¶2Patrick Starr appeals the denial of his 29.15 motion for post-conviction relief, after an evidentiary hearing. On appeal, Mr. Starr asserts that the motion court did not make findings of fact and conclusions of law as required by Rule 29.15®. Alternatively, Mr. Starr claims that he was denied effective assistance of trial counsel because (1) his counsel’s request that he accompany investigators to identify a witness was used against him at trial when the State argued an inference of guilt based on an attempt at this meeting to get the witness to change his testimony; and (2) his counsel did not request a conventional second degree murder instruction so that he could submit the defense of self-defense to the jury. This court finds that the record is sufficient to provide meaningful appellate review, and that Mr. Starr’s trial counsel was not ineffective. Since a published opinion would have no prece-dential value, a memorandum has been provided to the parties.

¶3The judgment of the motion court is affirmed. Rule 84.16(b).

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