State v. Carignan

Defendant, who raised the insanity defense at his trial on charges of aggravated sodomy, Minn.St. 609.293, subd. 2, and attempted first-degree murder, §§ 609.17 and 609.185, was found guilty by a district court jury of both charges and was sentenced by the trial court to the maximum term of 30 years in prison on the sodomy charge. Defendant appeals from judgment of conviction, and we affirm.

Defendant s main contention on appeal is that the trial court erred in refusing to allow defense counsel to explain postver-dict consequences of a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity and that the…