Case ID: or-app_258/html/0674-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted June 7,
    appeal dismissed September 25,
    petition for review allowed December 12,2013 (354 Or 597)
    JOEL EUGENE DELZELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Rick COURSEY, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, Defendant-Respondent.
    
    Umatilla County Circuit Court
    CV120716; A151983
    310 P3d 1202
    Joel Eugene Delzell filed the brief pro se.
    
    Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General, and Ryan Kahn, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
    Before Ortega, Presiding Judge, and Sercombe, Judge, and Hadlock, Judge.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Petitioner appeals a judgment dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief, arguing that the court erred in dismissing his petition without first ruling on his motion to appoint counsel. The state concedes that the court should have ruled on petitioner’s motion to appoint counsel before dismissing the petition.

Despite the state’s concession of error, we dismiss petitioner’s appeal because, under ORS 138.525(3), “a judgment dismissing a meritless petition is not appeal-able.” See Young v. Hill, 347 Or 165, 218 P3d 125 (2009) (dismissal of petition as meritless is not appealable under ORS 138.525(3)); Pedroso v. Nooth, 251 Or App 688, 284 P3d 1207 (2012), rev den, 353 Or 203 (2013) (same). In this case, the court checked a box on the judgment that provided, “Per ORS 138.525, the Petition is dismissed as meritless, and this judgment is therefore not appealable.” Because the petition was dismissed as meritless, the judgment was not appealable. ORS 138.525(3).

Appeal dismissed.