State v. Redding

COYNE, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of first-degree murder, Minn. Stat. § 609.185(3) (1986), for his role in the intentional murder of a person during the commission of an aggravated robbery. He was sentenced by the trial court to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. On this appeal from judgment of conviction he seeks (1) an outright reversal of his conviction because the evidence of his guilt was legally insufficient, (2) a new trial because he did not receive a fair trial, or (3) a reduction in sentence because — or so he contends — an accomplice, not he,…