Legal Opinion
State v. Pendleton
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided December 8, 2005No. A04-1128PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, RUSSELL A., Justice.
Frank Parker was shot to death on the morning of June 9, 2002, in the yard of Morris Pendleton, Jr.’s home on the Lower Sioux Reservation in Redwood County. The shots were fired from a motor vehicle that stopped in front of the home. One of the passengers in the vehicle, Dennis Pen-dleton, and the driver of the vehicle, Chris Sander, were subsequently charged with aiding and abetting murder in the second degree.
On the first day of his jury trial Dennis Pendleton, pursuant to plea agreement, entered an Alford guilty plea 1 to the lesser offense of…
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