Kevin Terrance Hannon v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

HUDSON, Justice.

This case is an appeal from the denial of Kevin Terrance Hannon’s third petition for postconviction relief. After we overturned Hannon’s first conviction on direct appeal, he was tried a second time and convicted of first-degree murder while committing or attempting to commit a kidnapping, see Minn. Stat. § 609.185(a)(3) (2016), and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release under Minn. Stat. § 609.106, subd. 2(2) (2006). We affirmed Hannon’s second conviction on direct appeal. Over the next few years, Hannon filed two petitions for postconviction…