State v. Joslin

*100MEMORANDUM OPINION

EDWARD D. MULALLY, Acting Judge.

While riding his bicycle in a Rochester, Minnesota park on the afternoon of January 1, 1985, appellant Gregory Joslin saw Bobbie Smith Gostout. Appellant remarked, “Do you want to f***?” and Gost-out told him to get lost. Appellant followed her. He grabbed Gostout, threw her to the ground, and choked her. Despite Gostout’s pleas that she just had a baby and was trying to recover, he retrieved an old World War I bayonet about 12 inches long which he carried on his side in a sheath, and stabbed her twice in the right chest. Gostout struggled to…