Legal Opinion

State v. MacLennan

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided August 18, 2005No. A03-2048PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ANDERSON, PAUL H., Justice.

Shortly after midnight on January 14, 2003, Kenneth MacLennan was shot and killed at his home in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Kenneth’s son, 17-year-old Jason Alexander MacLennan, was charged and subsequently indicted by a Stearns County grand jury for the first-degree premeditated murder of his father. Jason Mac-Lennan asked for both a speedy trial and a change of venue, and as a result a jury trial was held in September 2003 in Duluth, Minnesota. MacLennan claimed that he killed his father in self-defense and asked the district court to admit expert testimony…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  2. State v. GrillerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1998
  3. State v. MyersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1984
  4. State v. MacKSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1980
  5. State v. SaldanaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1982

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. State v. RameySupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
  2. Cathryn Ann Linn v. State of IowaSupreme Court of Iowa · 2019
  3. State v. MiltonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2012
  4. State v. ReedSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2007
  5. State v. AndersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2010

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