State v. Morgan

MacLaughlin, Justice.

Defendant, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., was found guilty by a jury in Ramsey County District Court of two counts of first-degree murder. Defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction on the grounds that the trial court erroneously admitted evidence of defendant’s participation in other crimes and abused its discretion in failing to sequester the jury or continue the trial in light of pretrial publicity. We affirm.

On August 3, 1973, defendant escaped from the Salem House of Corrections in Massachusetts with John Estrella and John Coveney. After the escape the prisoners…