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BARELA v. STATE

No. 01-216.

55 P.3d 11 (2002)

2002 WY 143

Steven R. BARELA, Appellant (Defendant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

September 25, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Miller of Graves, Miller & Kingston, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyoming, Representing Appellant.

Hoke MacMillan, Attorney General; Paul S. Rehurek, Deputy Attorney General; D. Michael Pauling, Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Robin Sessions Cooley, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Representing Appellee.

Before HILL, C.J., and GOLDEN, LEHMAN, KITE, and VOIGT, JJ.

VOIGT, Justice.

[¶ 1] In 1995, Steven R. Barela (appellant) pled guilty to the second-degree murder of his wife. In 2000, he filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, primarily due to the claimed ineffectiveness of his trial counsel. The district court denied this motion. Based on our recent decision in Nixon v. State, 2002 WY 118, 51 P.3d 851 (Wyo.2002), we conclude that the district court was without jurisdiction to...

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