Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. State of Minnesota, A13-560

*781OPINION

WRIGHT, Justice.

On July 29, 1998, appellant Thomas Daniel Rhodes .was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(a)(1) (2014), and sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(a); see also Minn.Stat. § 244,05, subd. 4 (1996). This is our fourth review of this case. See Rhodes v. State (Rhodes III), 735 N.W.2d 315 (Minn.2007); State v. Rhodes (Rhodes II), 657 N.W.2d 823 (Minn.2003); State v. Rhodes (Rhodes I), 627 N.W.2d 74 (Minn.2001). The present appeal arises from the summary denial of Rhodes’s third and fourth petitions, for postconviction…