Pippitt v. State

OPINION

GILDEA, Justice.

This case comes to us on appeal from the postconviction court’s denial of petitioner Brian Keith Pippitt’s petition for postconviction relief. Pippitt was convicted of the first-degree premeditated murder of Evelyn Malin and first-degree murder while committing burglary. For these crimes, Pippitt received two concurrent life sentences. On direct appeal we vacated the conviction for first-degree murder while committing burglary and affirmed the conviction for first-degree premeditated murder. State v. Pippitt, 645 N.W.2d 87, 96 (Minn.2002). We held, among other things,…