Legal Opinion
Dobbins v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided September 16, 2010No. A09-1872PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, PAUL H., Justice.
An Anoka County jury found Demetrius Devell Dobbins guilty of first-degree premeditated murder for the death of Quintín Roderick Lavender. We affirmed Dobbins’s conviction on direct appeal in 2006. In 2009 Dobbins filed a petition for post-conviction relief and the postconviction court denied the petition. Dobbins now appeals the denial of his petition, arguing that he is entitled to postconviction relief because (1) he received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel; (2) the State claimed that he killed Lavender, yet he was charged with and convicted of…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- State v. KnafflaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
- Larrison v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1928
- Leake v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2007
- State v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1982
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- State v. HokansonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2012
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