Parker v. State

COYNE, Justice.

In State v. Parker, 353 N.W.2d 122 (Minn.1984), we affirmed the 1983 conviction of Stanford Lee Parker (hereafter “petitioner”) of first-degree felony murder in the robbery and shooting death of Albert James. In 1988 petitioner, who is serving a life sentence, filed this petition for postcon-viction relief seeking a new trial on the basis of a recantation of trial testimony by Edward McConaughead, one of the state’s witnesses at petitioner’s trial. The district court, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, denied the petition. We affirm.

The evidence presented at petitioner’s…