Fratzke v. State

SIMONETT, Justice.

In 1982 a jury in Mille Lacs County District Court found petitioner, Gordon Allen Fratzke, guilty of first degree murder and aggravated robbery. The presiding judge sentenced petitioner to life imprisonment on the murder charge. This court affirmed his conviction. State v. Fratzke, 354 N.W.2d 402 (Minn.1984). 1 The Federal District Court'denied his subsequent petition for federal habeas corpus relief and an appeal to the Eighth Circuit was dismissed as untimely. Thereafter, in December 1988, petitioner filed a pro se petition seeking postconvietion relief under Minn.Stat.…