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HEPFEL v. BASHAW

Nos. 46571, 48229.

279 N.W.2d 342 (1979)

Lorna Lee HEPFEL, by her Guardian Ad Litem, Richard Hepfel, Respondent, v. Steven J. BASHAW, Petitioner. Marjorie Caroline ERICKSON, Appellant, v. Mark Anthony STASSI, Respondent, and County of St. Louis, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross A. Phelps, La Crescent, for Bashaw, petitioner.

Keith M. Brownell, County Atty., and Thomas F. Sjogren, Asst. County Atty., Duluth, for Erickson and County of St. Louis, appellants.

William V. Von Arx, County Atty., and Robert C. Youngerman, Asst. County Atty., Caledonia, for Hepfel.

Robert E. Lucas, Duluth, for Stassi.

Bruce A. Beneke and Thomas J. Barrett, Legal Assistance of Ramsey County, Inc., St. Paul, Thomas B. Humphrey, Jr., Anoka, C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Minneapolis, for amicus curiae.

Heard before SHERAN, C. J., ROGOSHESKE, PETERSON, YETKA, and WAHL, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

The appeal by the County of St. Louis and Marjorie Caroline Erickson, represented by the St. Louis County Attorney, was consolidated with Hepfel v. Bashaw, decided June 11, 1976, and now before the court on rehearing, to reconsider and determine the question of whether an indigent defendant in a paternity action is entitled to court-appointed counsel where the complainant mother is represented by the county attorney pursuant to Minn.St...

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