Thomas Lee Fairbanks v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

On September 1, 2011, a Polk County jury found appellant Thomas Lee Fairbanks guilty of first-degree murder of a peace officer, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(a)(4) (2014), and nine other felqnies associated with the shooting of Mahnomen County Sheriffs Deputy Christopher, Dewey. Fairbanks appealed directly to our court, and we affirmed his first-degree murder conviction and all but one of his other felony convictions. State v. Fairbanks, 842 N.W.2d 297 (Minn.2014). On February 17, 2015, Fairbanks filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief, which the postconviction court…