Legal Opinion
State v. Crowsbreast
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided July 12, 2001No. C8-99-1913PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LANCASTER, Justice.
A Yellow Medicine County jury found Burr Crowsbreast, III guilty of first-degree domestic abuse homicide, first-degree premeditated murder, second-degree intentional murder, second-degree felony murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault for beating his girlfriend Latisha Brien to death with a baseball bat. While he was incarcerated and awaiting trial, Crowsbreast voluntarily confessed to killing Brien. At trial, counsel for Crows-breast did not deny that Crowsbreast killed Brien; the only issue argued was the degree to which he was culpable for the…
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