Legal Opinion
Pierson v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided January 10, 2002No. C8-01-1184PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LANCASTER, Justice.
Shane Pierson was convicted of first- and second-degree murder and aggravated robbery for his involvement in the robbery of Raymond Barnett and the murder of Dural Woods. Pierson appealed his first-degree murder conviction to this court, claiming that the evidence presented by the state at trial was insufficient as a matter of law to sustain the conviction. State v. Pierson, 530 N.W.2d 784, 785 (Minn.1995). We rejected Pierson’s argument and affirmed his conviction. Id. at 789-90.
More than five years later, Pierson filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Evitts v. LuceySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- State v. KnafflaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
- State v. SpreiglSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1965
- Dukes v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2001
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State v. BlancheSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2005
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- Evans v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2010
- State v. PetschlCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 2004
- Scherf v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2010
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