Legal Opinion
La Verne Koenig v. State of North Dakota
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2014No. 12-2260PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
La Verne Koenig was convicted in a North Dakota state court of a class B misdemeanor. He appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for habe-as corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because we conclude that Koenig was improperly denied his Sixth Amendment right to appellate counsel, we reverse and remand with directions.
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Koenig was charged under N.D. Cent. Code § 36-11-01 with the misdemeanor offense of livestock running at large after three of his horses were discovered roaming freely in his neighbors’ fields. During the trial proceedings in…
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