Case Name: Dontae L. CHARLES, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 2017-06-13
Citations: 520 S.W.3d 522
Docket Number: No. ED 104287
Parties: Dontae L. CHARLES, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
Judges: Before James M. Dowd, P.J., Kurt S. Odenwald, J., and Gary M. Gaertner, Jr., J.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Third Series
Volume: 520
Pages: 522–523

Head Matter:
Dontae L. CHARLES, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
No. ED 104287
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, DIVISION FOUR.
Filed: June 13, 2017
FOR APPELLANT: Gwenda Renee’ Robinson, 1010 Market Street, Suite 1100, St. Louis, Missouri 63101.
FOR RESPONDENT: Joshua Hawley, Shuan J. Mackelprang, 221 West High Street, P.O. Box 899, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102.
Before James M. Dowd, P.J., Kurt S. Odenwald, J., and Gary M. Gaertner, Jr., J.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM
Dontae L. Charles fíled a Rule 29.15 motion claiming that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request the submission of a lesser-included offense instruction on one of the first-degree assault charges he was convicted of. Specifically, Charles asserts that trial counsel should have requested a lesser-included offense instruction for the class B felony of first-degree assault because the evidence did not support that the victim suffered serious physical injury—the element that differentiates class A first-degree assault from class B first-degree assault. See § 565.050. The motion court granted Charles an evidentiary hearing but denied Charles's motion, finding that trial counsel's strategy for not requesting the instruction was reasonable. Because we do not find the motion court's findings and conclusions to be clearly erroneous, we affirm.
An extended opinion would have no precedential value. The parties have been furnished with a memorandum for their information only, setting forth the reasons for this order pursuant to Rule 84.16(b).