Glenn B. Mansfield, Appellant, vs. State of Missouri, Respondent.

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and on September 5, 2019, certified Mansfield for prosecution as an adult and transferred his case to the associate circuit court. The State filed a felony complaint charging Mansfield with first- degree robbery, first-degree assault, and armed criminal action. Following certification, trial counsel entered her appearance. Trial counsel filed a motion with the associate circuit court to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction, arguing that the juvenile court erroneously certified Mansfield as an adult and that Mansfield received ineffective assistance of certification counsel. After a hearing on the motion to dismiss, the court denied the jurisdiction motion, held a preliminary hearing, and bound the matter over for trial in the circuit court. Trial counsel then filed a motion to dismiss the information in circuit court, which included the same claims made in the first earlier denied motion. The circuit court denied the motion. Following a one-day jury trial on July 13, 2021, Mansfield was found guilty on all three counts as charged. Subsequent trial counsel (L.H.) filed a motion for new trial, raising the claim, among others, that the circuit court erred in denying the motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. At sentencing on November 29, 2021, the circuit court sentenced Mansfield to two concurrent ten- year terms of imprisonment on the first-degree robbery and first-degree assault, and a consecutive ten-year term on the armed criminal action, for a total of twenty years. This Court affirmed the judgment and sentences in State v. Mansfield, 656 S.W.3d 45 (Mo. App. E.D. 2022). Mansfield sought post-conviction relief under Rule 29.15. Appointed counsel timely filed an amended Rule 29.15 motion. On December 1, 2023, the motion court held an evidentiary hearing regarding Mansfield's ineffective assistance of counsel claims. Mansfield testified on his own behalf and called trial counsel L.H. and a lay witness to testify. Appellate counsel testified by deposition that the