Voisine v. State, 20140010.
Decision Date | 28 May 2014 |
Docket Number | No. 20140010.,20140010. |
Parties | Raymond VOISINE, Petitioner and Appellant v. STATE of North Dakota, Respondent and Appellee. |
Court | North Dakota Supreme Court |
Kent M. Morrow, Bismarck, N.D., for petitioner and appellant; on brief.
Jonathan R. Byers, Assistant Attorney General, Bismarck, N.D., for respondent and appellee; on brief.
[¶ 1] Raymond Voisine appeals from a district court order denying his petition for postconviction relief from a conviction entered after his 2004 guilty plea to a charge of gross sexual imposition. Voisine's conviction resulted in proceedings leading to four separate appeals to this Court. See Voisine v. State, 2008 ND 91, ¶ 17, 748 N.W.2d 429 ( ); Matter of Voisine, 2010 ND 17, ¶¶ 1, 15, 777 N.W.2d 908 ( ); In Interest of Voisine, 2010 ND 241, ¶ 1, 795 N.W.2d 38 ( ); Interest of Voisine, 2012 ND 250, ¶ 1, 823 N.W.2d 786 ( ).
[¶ 2] In this appeal, Voisine argues the district court erred in denying his petition for relief from his conviction for gross sexual imposition because the victim's recantation constitutes newly discovered evidence requiring vacation of the guilty plea in the interest of justice. We conclude the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding Voisine failed to establish withdrawal of his guilty plea was necessary to correct a manifest injustice, and we affirm under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(4).
[¶ 3] GERALD W. VANDE WALLE, C.J., DANIEL J. CROTHERS, LISA FAIR McEVERS, CAROL RONNING KAPSNER, and DALE V. SANDSTROM, JJ., concur.
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