State v. Fields

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of burglary, Minn. St. 609.58, subd. 2(1) (a), and sentenced by the trial court to a maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment, this term to run consecutively to terms for prior convictions. On this appeal from judgment of conviction, defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law and that the prosecutor’s closing argument was prejudicially improper. There is no merit to the first issue since he was caught inside the building being burglarized.

As to the second issue, it appears that the prosecutor erred in…