Legal Opinion

State v. Kindem

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided August 26, 1983No. C4-81-562PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant was charged by the grand jury in Hennepin County with second-degree intentional murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.-. 19 (1980), for killing 63-year-old Clifford Hoffman of Richfield by hitting him on the head a number of times with a baseball bat in the course of robbing him outside his home early on June 17, 1980. A district court jury found defendant guilty of the lesser-included offense of third-degree murder under the felony-murder doctrine, Minn.Stat. § 609.195(2) (1980). 1 The presumptive sentence for the offense of third-degree murder (which is a severity level IX…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Texas v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. State v. KindemSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1981
  3. State v. AdamsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1980
  4. State v. Van GordenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1982
  5. United States v. George Raymond WrightCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. State v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2003
  2. State v. HoughSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1998
  3. State v. MitjansSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1987
  4. State v. KraushaarSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1991
  5. State v. SessionsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2001

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