State v. Ison

NEHRING, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 This appeal is the latest chapter in the saga of a Carribean cruise that set sail in November 1995 and the alleged misdeeds of Lew Ison, the man accused of frustrating the vacation plans of would-be passengers on that cruise.

¶ 2 Mr. Ison was convicted of two counts of communications fraud. He appealed his conviction to the court of appeals, where he argued that his counsel had been ineffective. The court of appeals agreed and oi-dered a new trial. We granted the State’s petition for certiorari to consider whether the court of appeals erred in ruling that Mr.…