State v. Caron

Defendant, found guilty by a district court jury of selling marijuana in violation of Minn. St. 152.09, subd. 1(1), and sentenced to the maximum term of imprisonment permitted by Minn. St. 152.15, subd. (2), 1 contends on this appeal from judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial that (1) the evidence was, as a matter of law, insufficient on the issue of identification to support the verdict; (2) the prosecutor was guilty of misconduct when in his closing argument he alluded to the failure of defendant to call certain witnesses; and (3) the trial court…