Bahtiraj v. State

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] Sulejman Moni Bahtiraj appeals from the district court’s order denying his application for post-conviction relief from an April 2011 conviction entered upon his guilty plea to a burglary charge. We hold the district court did not err in denying Bahtiraj’s motion for post-conviction relief. Bahtiraj failed to prove the prejudice necessary to satisfy the second prong of the two-prong Strickland test. We affirm.

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[¶ 2] In March 2011, Bahtiraj was charged with burglary, a class C felony, for stealing two cash registers from the Peking restaurant in West Fargo. Bahti-raj was…