Buggs v. State

OPINION

PAGE, Justice.

In 1998, we affirmed Louis Buggs’ first-degree murder conviction. 1 State v. Buggs, 581 N.W.2d 329, 332 (Minn.1998). On December 1, 2004, Buggs filed a petition for postconvietion relief. In his petition, Buggs asserts that he is entitled to postconvietion relief because the “systematic exclusion of members of his race from participation in the grand, or petit, jury body” in his case denied him equal protection of the law. Despite his reference to the petit jury in the petition, Buggs’ arguments to the postconvietion court focused entirely on the alleged race…