Ture v. State

KELLEY, Justice.

We have consolidated, on our own motion, three appeals by defendant from orders denying post-conviction relief from convictions arising from a series of sex offenses committed by defendant in Minneapolis in the fall of 1980. We decide by separate opinion in State v. Ture, 353 N.W.2d 502 (Minn.1984), filed herewith, defendant’s appeal of his conviction of murder, which he committed while kidnapping and sexually assaulting another woman, also in the fall of 1980.

Early on October 19, 1980, while armed with a knife, defendant forced an 18-year-old woman into his car in the Lake…