State v. Thurston

Rogosheske, Justice.

Defendant, charged with two counts of first-degree murder, Minn. St. 609.185(1), in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife, Katherine Raskie, and her friend, Carole Mastro, was found guilty by a district court jury of two counts of second-degree murder, § 609.19, and, upon conviction, sentenced to two terms of not to exceed 40 years, to be served concurrently. The main issue raised on defendant’s appeal is whether the trial court committed prejudicial error in refusing to admit the testimony of three witnesses, two of them key prosecution witnesses and the other an…