Legal Opinion
State v. Howard
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 30, 1985No. C1-84-2252PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COYNE, Justice.
The issue on this appeal from the denial of postconviction relief is whether petitioner, who is serving a life term for the 1977 murder of his wife, should receive a new trial on the ground that some of the evidence admitted at his trial was the suppressible fruit of an unlawful warrantless entry of his home by the police to arrest him. We hold that the arrest was legal and affirm.
Early in the evening of August 13, 1977, petitioner’s wife, Shirleen Howard, was shot and killed in the basement of the Howard residence in Winona while petitioner and their two daughters were out.…
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