Legal Opinion

State v. Chavarria-Cruz

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 20, 2013No. A11-1181PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

A grand jury indicted appellant Jose Miguel Chavarria-Cruz with first-degree premeditated murder for the benefit of a gang arising out of the shooting death of Carlos Hernandez Perez. Following a jury trial, Chavarria-Cruz was found not guilty of the first-degree murder offense but guilty of the lesser-included offense of second-degree intentional murder for the benefit of a gang. The district court convicted Chavarria-Cruz on the second-degree murder offense and imposed a 350-month sentence. On appeal, we held that Chavarria-Cruz’s right to counsel was violated,…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  3. Benton v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. Brown v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. United States v. TateoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. State of Minnesota v. Thomas Raymond StruzykSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2015
  2. Derrick Trevor Griffin v. State of MinnesotaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2016
  3. State of Minnesota v. Alie Christine Theodore DornSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2016
  4. State of Minnesota v. Marcus Michael BarshawSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2016
  5. State of Minnesota v. Ian Christopher MitchellCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 2016

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