IN RE HANSON

No. 91-066.

623 A.2d 466 (1993)

In re Kent HANSON.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

February 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd Taylor and Nancy M. Parmalee, Law Clerk, on the brief, Burlington, for petitioner-appellant.

Howard E. VanBenthuysen, Franklin County State's Atty., St. Albans, for respondent-appellee.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and GIBSON, DOOLEY, MORSE and JOHNSON, JJ.


MORSE, Justice.

In 1987, the Chittenden District Court convicted petitioner of murder, and he collaterally attacked the conviction seeking post-conviction relief (PCR) in Franklin Superior Court. Petitioner claimed that the district court erred in failing to conduct a competency hearing before accepting his change of plea from not guilty of first-degree murder to guilty of second-degree murder and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

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