MORELAND v. STATE (2019)

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

Jeffrey D. MORELAND, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

WD 81531

Decided: April 30, 2019

Before Division Four: Karen King Mitchell, Chief Judge, and Alok Ahuja and Cynthia L. Martin, Judges

David A. Kelly, Lee’s Summit, MO, Attorney for Appellant. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General, and Shaun J. Mackelprang, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, Attorneys for Respondent.

Order

Jeffrey Moreland appeals, following an evidentiary hearing, the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion for post-conviction relief. Moreland raises four claims on appeal: (1) the motion court failed to make sufficient findings of fact and conclusions of law on all claims raised in the amended motion; (2) trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object under the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause to testimony from a medical examiner who did not perform the victim’s autopsy; (3) the motion court erred in concluding that trial counsel’s failure to present a firearms expert to counter the conclusions from the State’s firearms expert was based upon trial strategy; and (4) trial counsel was ineffective in failing to present evidence to support a defense of an alternate perpetrator. Affirmed. Rule 84.16(b).

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