Case Name: Lee ELBERT, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 2001-03-20
Citations: 45 S.W.3d 463
Docket Number: No. WD 58891
Parties: Lee ELBERT, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
Judges: Before ULRICH, P.J., EDWIN H. SMITH, J. and NEWTON, J.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Third Series
Volume: 45
Pages: 463–464

Head Matter:
Lee ELBERT, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
No. WD 58891.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
March 20, 2001.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied May 1, 2001.
Application for Transfer Denied June 26,2001.
Jeannie M. Willibey, Asst. Public Defender, Kansas City, for appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., Dora A. Fichter, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.
Before ULRICH, P.J., EDWIN H. SMITH, J. and NEWTON, J.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
Lee Elbert appeals from the judgment of the motion court denying his Rule 29.15 motion for postconviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. In his motion, Mr. Elbert sought to vacate his convictions for statutory rape in the first degree, section 566.032, RSMo 1994, statutory sodomy in the first degree, section 566.062, RSMo 1994, and child molestation in the second degree, section 566.068, RSMo 1994, and concurrent sentences of fifteen years imprisonment each on the statutory rape and statutory sodomy convictions and one year imprisonment for child molestation. Mr. Elbert claims that the motion court erred in denying his Rule 29.15 motion because his trial counsel was ineffective in failing "to retain an expert to conduct an independent DNA test, which would have excluded [him] as the perpetrator of the charged crimes." The judgment of the motion court is affirmed. Rule 84.16(b).