State v. Yorek

¶1 On January 2, 2001, Terry Yorek (Yorek) petitioned the Twenty-First Judicial District Court for postconviction relief following sentencing on a felony DUI, during which the court also designated Yorek a persistent felony offender. The District Court dismissed Yorek’s petition, concluding that it had jurisdiction to impose the persistent felony offender designation, and that Yorek waived his claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to do so when he pled guilty. Yorek appeals from the dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief. We affirm.

¶2 The dispositive question presented is…