Legal Opinion

State v. Johnson

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 2, 1989No. C7-88-2023, C9-88-2038, C3-88-2049, CX-88-2050, C3-88-2052 and C6-88-2093PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

YETKA, Justice.

Defendants were indicted by Hennepin County grand juries in November 1987 and March 1988. They moved for a dismissal of the indictments due to numerous prose-cutorial errors. The Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial District appointed a four-judge panel to hear the issues common to all cases. Twenty-two cases were consolidated before the panel, which found numerous errors, but held them all to be harmless and denied defense motions to dismiss the indictments. The panel specifically found that the foreperson of the November grand jury, at the suggestion of the county attorney,…

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2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Remmer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. Hale v. HenkelSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
  3. Clyde Mattox v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  4. United States v. Alfred Joseph SamangoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
  5. State v. ScruggsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1988

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3Cited by29 opinions

  1. State v. PilcherSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1991
  2. State v. GlazeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1990
  3. State v. PenkatySupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
  4. State v. HillSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2011
  5. State v. HohenwaldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2012

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