Jacob Stephen Brown v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

DIETZEN, Justice.

Appellant Jacob Stephen Brown pleaded guilty in 1988 to first-degree murder of his estranged girlfriend, Carmen Larson, and attempted first-degree murder of her friend, M.R. The district court accepted Brown’s pleas and sentenced him to consecutive terms of life in prison and 130 months. After expiration of the postcon-vietion statute of limitations under Minn. Stat. § 590.01, subd. 4(a) (2014), Brown filed his fifth request for postconviction relief, claiming his guilty pleas were not knowing, voluntary; and intelligent. He argued his claim was not time-barred because…