State v. Haase

On January 20, 1995, the district court, considering unconstitutional the statutes under which it had been asked to act, refused to change the sentence it had previously imposed upon the defendant, Robert Haase. On February 17, 1995, Haase filed in the district court a notice of his intention to appeal therefrom to this court, a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, and a purported “Affidavit of Poverty” in support of said motion.

The so-called poverty affidavit represents that it was signed before notary Thomas J. Gaul, also the Deputy Hall County Public Defender, but bears no notarial seal.…