Legal Opinion
State v. Nissalke
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided July 13, 2011No. A09-1829PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILDEA, Chief Justice.
A jury found appellant, Jack Willis Nis-salke, guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree, in violation of Minn.Stat. § 609.185(a)(1) (2010), and other crimes in connection with the death of Ada Senen-felder. The district court convicted Nis-salke of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced Nissalke to life imprisonment. This direct appeal follows. We affirm.
On June 6, 1985, Ada Senenfelder was found murdered in her home in Winona, Minnesota. Senenfelder was cut and stabbed 33 times and bled to death from a stab wound to the heart. Senenfelder’s…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- California v. TrombettaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Arizona v. YoungbloodSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- State v. SpreiglSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1965
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3Cited by32 opinions
- State v. MiltonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2012
- State v. DavisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2012
- State v. MuntSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2013
- State v. GuzmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2017
- Nissalke v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2015
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