State Missouri v. Stacey A. Lannert

Defendant appeals after a jury convicted her of murder in the first degree, § 565.020, RSMo. 1986, and armed criminal action, § 571.015, RSMo. 1986, for which she was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of probation or parole for the murder conviction and a concurrent term of three years for the armed criminal action conviction. Also consolidated within this appeal, Defendant appeals the denial of her Rule 29.15 motion without an evidentiary hearing. We remand for a gender-Batson hearing and affirm with regard to all other issues. Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of evidence on appeal. The facts viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict reveal that Defendant, 18-year-old Stacey Lannert, was living with her father, Tom Lannert, and her 14-year-old sister at the time of the killing. Her mother and father were divorced, and her mother had remarried and was living in Guam. After the divorce, Defendant and her sister would live intermittently with their mother or father. Defendant's sister had also previously lived with other relatives.