Legal Opinion
Cooper v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided February 28, 2008No. A07-1038PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, PAUL H„ Justice.
A Hennepin County jury found Gary Lee Cooper guilty of first-degree murder for the death of Gregory Peterson. Cooper was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Cooper filed a direct appeal, which we affirmed, and two postconviction petitions in district court, which the district court denied. Cooper now appeals from a summary denial of his third post- conviction petition, arguing that (1) the state engaged in prosecutorial misconduct in its opening statement; (2) the trial judge erred in communicating with the jury outside the presence of counsel and…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- State v. KnafflaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
- State v. MerrillSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1978
- Leake v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2007
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1986
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- State v. McClentonCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 2010
- Nunn v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2008
- State of Minnesota v. Shavelle Oscar Chavez-NelsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2016
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