Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District / Jan 28, 2020
State of Missouri, vs. Brent E. Tritle
Brent Tritle appealed the denial of his Rule 29.07(d) motion to withdraw a guilty plea for felony DWI, entered sixteen years prior. Tritle argued his sentence was unauthorized and his plea was misled, constituting a manifest injustice. The appellate court dismissed the appeal, holding that claims challenging the voluntariness of a plea or the legality of a sentence must be brought exclusively under Rule 24.035, and Tritle's claims were time-barred under that rule.