Court Opinion

ID: 9572179
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:39:20.22377+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:31:46.890571
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CARDINE, Justice,
dissenting, with whom BROWN, Chief Justice, joins.
I dissent for the same reasons stated in my dissenting opinions in Long v. State, Wyo., 745 P.2d 547 (1987), and Alberts v. State, Wyo., 745 P.2d 898 (1987). I would remand for determination by the district court whether an attorney should be appointed for appellant, as provided in §§ 7-14-104 and 7-6-104, W.S.1977, because a reasonable person with adequate means would bring this action at his own expense. Parenthetically, I would note that, with rejection of the above statute by the majority, the test now must be whether an unreasonable person, using someone else’s money, would bring the action at his expense.