Andersen v. State

LILLEHAUG, Justice.

In 2008 a jury found appellant Kenneth Eugene Andersen guilty of first-degree premeditated murder, Minn. Stat. § 609.185(a)(1) (2016), for the April 2007 shooting death of Chad Swedberg in Becker County. We affirmed his conviction on direct appeal, State v. Andersen (Andersen I ), 784 N.W.2d 320, 323 (Minn. 2010), and affirmed the postconviction court's summary denial of his first postconviction petition, Andersen v. State (Andersen II ), 830 N.W.2d 1, 14 (Minn. 2013).

Now before us is Andersen's second petition for postconviction relief, claiming newly discovered evidence,…