STATE v. PAIGE

No. A08-0616.

765 N.W.2d 134 (2009)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Taporius Dywann PAIGE, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

May 12, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Michael O. Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney, Thomas A. Weist, Assistant County Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, for respondent.

Lawrence Hammerling, Chief Appellate Public Defender, Michael W. Kunkel, Assistant Public Defender, St. Paul, Minnesota, for appellant.

Considered and decided by CONNOLLY, Presiding Judge; HUDSON, Judge; and RANDALL, Judge.


OPINION

HUDSON, Judge.

On appeal from the denial of his request to withdraw his guilty plea, appellant argues that the district court applied the wrong legal standard to his request to discharge counsel, which resulted in the absence of adequate representation at his plea-withdrawal hearing. We agree and remand.

FACTS

On February 15, 2007, appellant Taporius Dywann Paige was indicted by a Hennepin County grand jury for one count of first...

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