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BENSON v. STATE

No. A-9953.

273 P.3d 1144 (2012)

Jamon R. BENSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

April 6, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Lee Griffin , Assistant Public Advocate, and Rachel Levitt , Public Advocate, Anchorage (opening brief), and Dan S. Bair , Assistant Public Advocate, and Richard Allen , Public Advocate, Anchorage (reply brief), for the Appellant.

Eric A. Ringsmuth , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and John J. Burns , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and BOLGER, Judges.

OPINION

COATS, Chief Judge.

Jamon R. Benson applied to be represented by an attorney at public expense. The trial court initially appointed an attorney, but later found that Benson was not indigent and did not qualify for counsel at public expense. Benson represented himself at trial and was convicted of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree.1 He was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. On...

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