Rummer v. State

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] Werner Rümmer, formerly known as Werner Kunkel, appealed from a district court judgment denying his petition for post-conviction relief. We conclude Rümmer has failed to establish his trial counsel was ineffective, failed to establish the State withheld potentially exculpatory evidence, and failed to establish the State violated his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. We affirm.

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[¶ 2] In 1995, a jury found Rümmer guilty of murdering Gilbert Fassett in Ramsey County. Fassett’s body had been found in August 1986 in a wooded area on the Fort Totten…