State v. Amos

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant appeals his conviction for first-degree murder, claiming that premeditation is lacking as a matter of law and that various trial errors require a new trial or at least that the conviction should be reduced to second-degree murder. We affirm.

On August 7, 1982, at about 6 p.m., defendant Donald R. Amos shot and killed John Coles at the intersection of Eighth Street and Emerson Avenpe North in Minneapolis. The victim, Coles, driving his automobile southbound on Emerson, had stopped for the stop sign at the intersection with Eighth Street. Defendant Amos, riding as…