Taylor v. State

ANDERSON, Justice.

In this first-degree murder case, appellant Kemen Lavatos Taylor II appeals from a postconviction order that summarily denied his public-trial claim, concluding that Taylor's claim was barred by the rule announced in State v. Knaffla , 309 Minn. 246, 243 N.W.2d 737 (1976). On appeal, Taylor argues that the interests-of-justice exception to the Knaffla rule should be applied in his case, which would allow his petition for postconviction relief to be heard on its merits. Because Taylor forfeited appellate review of this argument when he failed to raise the argument before the…