State v. Domabyl

OPINION

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of criminal negligence resulting in death, Minn.St. 609.205, a charge stemming from a one-car automobile accident which killed two young men, and the trial court sentenced defendant to a limited maximum term of 14 months in prison. Issues raised on the appeal relate to the trial court’s admission of an out-of-court statement defendant made to a law-enforcement officer and to the court’s denial of a Schwartz hearing on a claim that one or more of the jurors misunderstood the instructions. We affirm.

The accident out of which…