Legal Opinion
State v. Logan
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 4, 1995No. C3-94-178PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COYNE, Justice.
Defendant, Benjamin Matthew Logan, appeals from judgment of conviction of two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of two clerks during an armed robbery of a Minneapolis gun store on the evening of June 23, 1992. The decisive issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying a defense challenge for cause of one of the jurors, who candidly said he would be more inclined to believe the testimony of police officers than of other witnesses. If the trial court erred in allowing this juror to serve, then defendant was deprived of a fair trial by an impartial…
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