State v. Williams

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant was charged with two counts of attempted second-degree (intentional) murder and two counts of completed assault in the first degree, Minn.Stat. §§ 609.11, 609.17, 609.19 and 609.221 (1982), for the shotgun shooting of his friend Delores Dickson and Calvin Kidd, the friend of one of Ms. Dickson’s daughters. A district court jury found defendant guilty of attempted second-degree murder for shooting Ms. Dickson and assault in the first-degree for shooting Mr. Kidd. The trial court determined that he could sentence defendant consecutively to a total of 91.5 months in…