Legal Opinion
Dent v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided June 9, 1989No. C9-88-2301PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEY, Justice.
On January 30, 1980, appellant Anthony Elmer Dent was convicted of the first-degree murder of Ramon Sanchez and was sentenced by a Hennepin County district judge to life imprisonment. His conviction was affirmed by this court State v. Dent, 308 N.W.2d 487 (Minn.1981). Two subsequent petitions by him seeking federal ha-beas corpus relief were dismissed by the federal court for failure to exhaust state remedies. Thereafter, he commenced the instant proceeding seeking postconviction relief under Minn.Stat. §§ 590.01-.06 (1988). The Hennepin County District Court dismissed…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jones v. BarnesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Reed v. RossSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- State v. KnafflaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
- Case v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1985
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- State v. DeWaldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1990
- State v. BrocksSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1998
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