Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District / Jan 21, 2020
STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. ROBERT L. CAMPBELL, Defendant-Appellant
Robert Campbell, convicted of two counts of second-degree murder, filed a second appeal from his 2016 convictions and sentences. He argued that a nunc pro tunc correction to the written judgment, which changed a "999 Years" sentence to "Life in Prison" to conform to the oral pronouncement, constituted an amended judgment allowing a new appeal. The appellate court dismissed the appeal, holding that a nunc pro tunc correction is merely a clerical entry and does not create a new judgment from which a statutory right to appeal arises.