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State v. Morales

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided September 23, 2010No. A07-2401PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ANDERSON, PAUL H., Justice.

A Hennepin County jury found Angel Morales guilty of second-degree felony murder for the death of Victor Mesa-Ortiz during the commission of an aggravated robbery. The Hennepin County District Court convicted Morales of this crime and sentenced him to 150 months in prison. At trial, the State alleged that Morales’s accomplice, Felipe Vega-Lara, shot and killed Mesa-Ortiz when Mesa-Ortiz resisted an attempt to rob him at gunpoint. The district court granted Vega-Lara use immunity, and the State called Vega-Lara to testify at Morales’s trial even though…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. Kastigar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Marchetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Lilly v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1999

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. State of Iowa v. Vernon Lee HuserSupreme Court of Iowa · 2017
  2. State v. HallmarkSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2019
  3. People v. MaresColorado Court of Appeals · 2011
  4. State v. UseeCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 2011
  5. Amended July 17, 2017 State of Iowa v. Vernon Lee HuserSupreme Court of Iowa · 2017

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