Townsend v. State

OPINION

HANSON, Justice.

Appellant Otha Eric Townsend appeals from the district court’s denial of his third petition for postconviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. Townsend was convicted of first-degree murder in 1994, and we affirmed his conviction on direct appeal. We subsequently affirmed the denial of his two earlier petitions for postconviction relief. The district court denied Townsend’s third petition without an evi-dentiary hearing because claims raised were known or should have been known at the time of an earlier appeal and are therefore barred. We affirm.

On September 29,…