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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