Edbert Neal Williams v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

STRAS, Justice.

Appellant Edbert Williams was convicted in 1997 of first-degree premeditated murder for the stabbing death of Genelda Campeau and attempted first-degree murder for the stabbing of Campeau’s granddaughter, S.C. Williams filed the present postconviction petition, his second, in 2013, claiming that both his trial and appellate counsel were ineffective. The district court denied the petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. Because Williams’s claims are procedurally barred, we affirm.

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Police officers found 65-year-old Genel-da Campeau stabbed to death in her Saint…