Otha Eric Townsend v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

GILDEA, Chief Justice.

In these two matters, petitioner Otha Eric Townsend appeals from the postcon-viction court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief and his second motion to correct his sentence under Minn. R.Crim. P. 27.03, subd. 9 (“Rule 27.03”). Townsend was convicted of first-degree murder in 1994 and of second-degree attempted murder in 1995. In 2014, the postconviction court denied Townsend’s petition for postconviction relief without an evidentiary hearing as time-barred and procedurally barred. The postconviction court also denied Townsend’s Rule 27.03 motion,…