State v. Henriksen

OPINION

PAGE, Justice.

In its unpublished decision in this case, the court of appeals, by a 2-1 vote, awarded a new trial to defendant, Lenny Lloyd Henrik-sen, who had been convicted of making ter-roristic threats, Minn.Stat. § 609.713 (Supp. 1993), to harm his former girl friend, C.S. The conviction was based on evidence that on November 28, 1992, defendant called C.S.’s mother and told her that “in a couple weeks your daughter will be dead” and called a close friend of C.S. and told her “the games are over, it’s time to play ball.”

The majority of the court of appeals concluded that a new…