Wassilie v. State

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

OPINION

Norman Wassilie litigated a petition for post-conviction relief in the superior court. He was initially represented by an attorney from the Public Defender Agency. But after the assistant public defender investigated Wassilie's case, he filed a certificate of "no arguable merit" under Alaska Criminal Rule 35.1(e)(2). In other words, Wassilie's attorney told the superior court that, after investigating Wassilie's potential claims for post-conviction relief, the attorney concluded that Wassilie had no colorable claims to raise, and that the court should dismiss…