State of Minnesota v. Adam John Lilienthal

OPINION

HUDSON, Justice.

Following a jury trial, appellant Adam John Lilienthal was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, Minn. Stat. § 609.185(a)(1) (2016), and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. On appeal, Lilienthal contends that the district court committed reversible error when it admitted evidence of his post-arrest, pr e-Miranda silence during the State’s case-in-chief, when it allowed the prosecutor to discuss Lilienthal’s silence in closing argument, and when it denied his request for a defense-of-dwelling jury instruction. Because we conclude that…