State v. Gilleylen
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The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree intentional murder following a jury trial, holding that the district court erred in entering a conviction for the lesser-included offense of second-degree intentional murder.
After the trial, the district court entered judgment of convictions for both first-degree and second-degree murder but only imposed a sentence for the first-degree murder conviction. The Supreme Court held (1) the evidence was sufficient to prove the element of premeditation for the first-degree murder offense; (2) assuming, without deciding, that the district court erred by failing to identify a certain individual as an accomplice, the failure did not affect Defendant's substantial rights; (3) the district court did not commit any other reversible error in managing the trial and the jury instructions; and (4) the entry of a judgment of conviction for the second-degree intentional murder offense violated Minn. Stat. 609.04, subd. 1.
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