Legal Opinion

Aird v. State

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided December 17, 1971No. 41723Published

1Per curiam

This appeal from a denial in October 1968 of defendant’s postconviction petition for relief challenging the validity of his 1962 .conviction *424upon a plea of guilty to first-degree robbery was based on the assumption that such conviction resulted in increasing defendant’s sentence after he pled guilty to a later crime of aggravated robbery in 1967.1 At oral argument it was acknowledged, as the record compels, that the 1962 conviction had no such effect. Therefore, the relief defendant now seeks is a vacation of his 1962 conviction and a dismissal of the charge to accomplish removal of that…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Holm v. TahashSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1965
  2. State v. MadisonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1968
  3. State v. LaJeunesseSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1968
  4. State Ex Rel. Atkinson v. TahashSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1966
  5. State v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1968

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