State v. Champion

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Edward Odell Champion, age 23, from an order of the Hennepin County District Court denying his petition for postconviction relief in the form of re-sentencing according to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines. His petition was filed pursuant to the amendment to the Postcon-viction Remedy Act providing that persons convicted of and sentenced for crimes committed before May 1, 1980, may be resen-tenced according to the Sentencing Guidelines if they can establish that their early release from sentence would not present a danger to the public and would…