Legal Opinion
McKenzie v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 7, 2008No. A08-167PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MEYER, Justice.
Rene Julian McKenzie filed a petition for postconviction relief in July 2007. The postconviction court denied his petition without a hearing. We affirm.
On December 2, 1992, a Hennepin County jury convicted McKenzie of first-degree murder in the death of Perry Pajunen, and he was sentenced to life in prison. 1 McKenzie appealed to this court in 1993, with the assistance of appellate counsel, raising three issues: (1) whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction; (2) whether the district court erred in admitting testimony from a witness who said that…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- State v. KnafflaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
- United States v. DoughertyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- State v. ElingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1984
- Schleicher v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Sontoya v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2013
- Campbell v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2018
- Onyelobi v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2019
- Rene Julian McKenzie v. State of MinnesotaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2015
- Joel Marvin Munt v. State of MinnesotaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2016
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