De-Aunteze Lavion Bobo v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

WRIGHT, Justice.

Appellant De-Aunteze Lavion Bobo challenges the denial of his third and fourth petitions for postconviction relief in this first-degree murder case. Following an evidentiary hearing, the postconviction court determined that, because the witnesses who testified on Bobo’s behalf were not credible, the evidence that Bobo presented as newly discovered failed to satisfy the materiality requirement of the test announced in Rainer v. State, 566 N.W.2d 692, 695 (Minn.1997). For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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