HARRIS, Justice.
This appeal from a district court decree denying postconviction relief presents a classic conflict between two basic rights. One is the fundamental constitutional right to a fair trial. Under the facts here a claim that this right was violated is confronted by society's right to finality in criminal prosecutions. We find that the postconviction plaintiff waived his present fair-trial challenge by not raising it during his prior direct appeal. We affirm...
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