State v. Cooper

OPINION

STRINGER, Justice.

Appellant Gary Lee Cooper (“Cooper”) appeals Ms conviction for the first-degree murder of Gregory Peterson (“Peterson”), asserting that the evidence introduced at trial was not sufficient to allow the jury to conclude that Cooper murdered Peterson with premeditation and intent to kill and that the state failed to prove that the killing was not justified by self defense. We affirm, holding that there was ample evidence to support a conviction of first-degree murder.

Cooper shot and killed Peterson outside the Minneapolis apartment of Cooper’s girlfriend Lena Cartharn…