Legal Opinion
State v. Harris
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 26, 1994No. C3-93-1790PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAGE, Justice.
Appellant, Mark Orlando Harris, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with murder in the first degree in violation of Minn.Stat. § 609.185(2) (1992) for the death of Carol Abelseth. 1 Following a jury trial, Harris was found guilty of Abelseth’s murder and sentenced to life in prison. In seeking a new trial, Harris asserts: (1) it was error for the trial court to permit the prosecutor to introduce and exploit evidence that several of the state’s witnesses had been placed in a witness protection program because of their fear of Harris; (2) the trial court abused…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- United States v. DiFrancescoSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. MartinoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- United States v. PartinCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- State v. McRaeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1992
- United States v. Eugene Difrancesco, United States of America v. Eugene DifrancescoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by57 opinions
- State v. RameySupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
- Rairdon v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1996
- State v. MayhornSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
- State v. HendersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2001
- State v. BowlesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1995
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