Nunn v. State

OPINION

GILDEA, Justice.

This case comes to us on appeal from the postconviction court’s denial of appellant Jerome D. Nunn’s petition for post-conviction relief. In 1996, Nunn was convicted of the first-degree murder of Abdul Poe and the attempted first-degree murder of John Holmes. We affirmed Nunn’s convictions on direct appeal. State v. Nunn, 561 N.W.2d 902, 909 (Minn.1997). Ten years later, Nunn petitioned for post-conviction relief on the grounds that the prosecutor committed misconduct during closing argument and that Nunn’s appellate counsel was ineffective in failing to raise the…