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WASSILIE v. STATE

No. A-11654.

331 P.3d 1285 (2014)

Norman WASSILIE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

August 1, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Wassilie, in propria persona, Kenai, for the Appellant.

Nancy R. Simel , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Michael C. Geraghty , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Tracey Wollenberg , Deputy Public Defender, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, appearing as amicus curiae.

Beth Goldstein , Deputy Public Advocate, and Richard Allen , Public Advocate, Anchorage, appearing as amicus curiae.

Before: MANNHEIMER, Chief Judge, ALLARD, Judge, and HANLEY, District Court Judge.

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

OPINION

Norman Wassilie litigated a petition for post-conviction relief in the superior court. He was initially represented by an attorney from the Public Defender Agency. But after the assistant public defender investigated Wassilie's case, he filed a certificate of "no arguable merit" under Alaska Criminal Rule 35.1(e)(2). In other words, Wassilie's attorney told the superior court that, after investigating Wassilie's potential...

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