Hummel v. State

OPINION

LANCASTER, Justice.

This case comes before the court on appellant Jimmy Robert Hummel’s appeal from a district court order dismissing his petition for postconviction relief. In his petition, appellant requested a new trial based on allegations of ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel in connection with his 1990 first-degree murder conviction. The facts underlying that conviction are set out in State v. Hummel, 483 N.W.2d 68, 70-71 (Minn.1992). The district court dismissed appellant’s petition without conducting an evidentiary hearing, finding appellant’s petition to be…