STATE v. WELLS

Cr. No. 621-A.

276 N.W.2d 679 (1979)

STATE of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Mark Alan WELLS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Olson, Burleigh County State's Atty., Bismarck, for plaintiff and appellee.

Benjamin C. Pulkrabek, Mandan, for defendant and appellant.


SAND, Justice.

On 12 May 1977 Mark Alan Wells entered a plea of guilty to the crime of murder and was later sentenced to a term of life imprisonment under the North Dakota dangerous special offender statute, § 12.1-32-09, North Dakota Century Code. Wells appealed the sentence attacking the constitutionality of the dangerous special offender statute. In a prior opinion on that appeal we upheld the constitutionality of § 12.1-32-09, NDCC, but remanded the...

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