State v. Gilles

YETKA, Justice.

Defendant was charged in Hennepin County with first-degree arson for allegedly setting fire to his wife’s house. He waived his right to a jury trial and was tried in district court before Judge Donald T. Bar-beau, who found him guilty as charged and sentenced him to 49 months in prison,1 with the sentence running concurrently with two previously imposed concurrent 40-year prison terms, for which parole was revoked.2 On this appeal from judgment of conviction and from the order denying a new trial, defendant’s privately retained attorney argues that the state’s evidence was…