Ebert v. State

YETKA, Justice.

In 1974 petitioner entered a guilty plea in county court to a charge of D.W.I. and was sentenced. Then in 1977, nearly 3½ years later, petitioner filed a petition in district court pursuant to Minn.Stat. ch. 590 seeking relief from that conviction. After a hearing, the district court denied relief. We affirm. 1

Although a tape recording was apparently made of the proceedings surrounding petitioner’s entry of her plea in 1974, in the 3V2-year interval between the entry of the plea and the filing of the petition for postconviction relief the tape recording was lost or misplaced.…