State v. Johnson

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

Defendant, Andrew Johnson, was found guilty by a Hennepin County jury of murder in the first degree upon an indictment charging him with the premeditated killing of Yvonne (Bonnie) Bye. Minn.St. 609.185. 1 On this appeal, defendant, arguing that at most a conviction of a lesser degree of homicide was warranted, raises three principal claims of error: (1) The admission into evidence of a tape-recorded statement and incriminating diagrams despite the state’s failure to supply defendant with copies of this evidence in compliance with Minn.St. 611.033; (2) the trial court’s…