Legal Opinion
State v. Ferguson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided July 9, 1998No. C7-97-165PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAUL H. ANDERSON, Justice.
In the early morning hours of September 24, 1994, seven gunshots were fired through the dining room window of a south Minneapolis home. One bullet hit Allen Wheatley Jr., who died later that morning. Two days after the shooting, police arrested appellant Alonzo Ferguson for the murder. Ferguson denied any knowledge of the shooting, and the police subsequently released him. Almost 21 months later, the Hennepin County Attorney filed a criminal complaint against Ferguson, based on new evidence, charging him with the murder of Wheatley. A grand jury then indicted…
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