Opinion
No. ED 76050
November 30, 1999 Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied February 7, 2000 Application for Transfer Denied March 21, 2000
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, David C. Mason, Judge.
Nancy L. Vincent, St. Louis, for appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., John M. Morris, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Breck K. Burgess, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.
Before KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, P.J., and ROBERT G. DOWD, Jr., and SHERRI B. SULLIVAN, JJ.
ORDER
Harold Baker (Movant) appeals the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion for postconviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. Movant contends the motion court erred in denying his postconviction motion without an evidentiary hearing in that (1) Movant's allegation that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to brief and argue on appeal the trial court's denial of defense counsel's motion to withdraw and motion for mistrial, and (2) the trial court committed plain error when it permitted the prosecutor to misdefine the term "deliberation" during closing argument. We affirm.
We have reviewed the briefs of the parties and the record on appeal and find the claims of error to be without merit. An opinion would have no precedential value nor serve any jurisprudential purpose. The parties have been furnished with a memorandum for their information only, setting forth reasons for this order pursuant to Rule 84.16(b).