Opinion ID: 1805641
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Heading: Presumption of Regularity

Text: Inasmuch as the petition herein is a collateral attack on the judgment of conviction, the latter carries a presumption of regularity. In State ex rel. Kons v. Tahash, 281 Minn. 467, 474, 161 N.W.2d 826, 831, certiorari denied, 394 U.S. 961, 89 S.Ct. 1304, 22 L.Ed.2d 562, we said: The instant case is not unlike that with which we dealt in State ex rel. Fruhrman v. Tahash, 275 Minn. 242, 250, 146 N.W.2d 174, 180. There we held the trial court was justified in not accepting defendant's assertion that his counsel failed to advise him of his rights during a 25-minute consultation. In affirming an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus, we stressed the fact that defendant did not clearly and unequivocally profess his innocence and that it was a relevant consideration that the defendant had waited 10 years to challenge his conviction. We have also recently reiterated the rule that a `postconviction proceeding is a collateral attack on a judgment which carries a presumption of regularity and which, therefore, cannot be lightly set aside.'