State v. Jackson

OPINION

ANDERSON, G. BARRY, Justice.

Appellant Prentis Cordell Jackson was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Michael Anthony Bluntson, Jr., in Minneapolis. On direct appeal, appellant seeks the reversal of his conviction on the basis that the district court declined to give the jury an accomplice corroboration instruction. We affirm appellant’s conviction.

Michael Anthony Bluntson, Jr., was killed near the intersection of 25th Avenue North and Sixth Street North in Minneapolis on February 24, 2006. A medical examiner testified that Bluntson died from a gunshot to the head fired…