Legal Opinion
State v. Lucas
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 16, 1985No. C7-84-344PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COYNE, Justice.
Defendant, Arthur William Lucas, was found guilty by a district court jury of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, Minn.Stat. §§ 609.05, 609.175, subd. 2(2), and 609.-185(1) (1984), for participating with his girl friend, Carlene Ann Buschkopf, in the planned “killing for insurance” of her hus band, Theodore, (“Ted”) Buschkopf. Defendant was sentenced by the trial court to a mandatory term of life imprisonment for the murder; he was not sentenced for the conspiracy but was formally adjudicated guilty of it. On this appeal from judgment of…
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