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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tara H. GREATHOUSE, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
    No. WD 58885.
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
    June 5, 2001.
    Motion for Rehearing and/or transfer to Supreme Court Denied July 24, 2001.
    Application for Transfer Denied Sept. 25, 2001.
    Susan L. Hogan, Appellate Defender, Kansas City, for Appellant.
    Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Dora A. Fichter, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, for Respondent.
    Before EDWIN H. SMITH, P.J., and SMART and HOWARD, JJ.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

Tara H. Greathouse pleaded guilty to one count of second degree murder, one count of armed criminal action, and one count of first degree robbery. She then filed for post-conviction relief under Rule 24.035, alleging her plea was involuntary due to ineffective assistance of counsel. She alleged that she was coerced into pleading guilty because she was told that, if she proceeded to trial on the first degree murder count as charged, she would be sentenced to death or life without parole. She now appeals from the motion court’s judgment, which denied her Rule 24.035 motion without an evidentiary hearing.

Judgment affirmed. Rule 84.16(b).