Legal Opinion
Chambers v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided May 31, 2013No. A11-1954PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DIETZEN, Justice.
Appellant Timothy Chambers was found guilty by a Rice County jury of first-*316degree murder and related charges- arising out of a motor vehicle collision that occurred on May 3, 1996, in which a deputy sheriff was killed. The district court sentenced Chambers on the first-degree murder conviction to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release. We affirmed Chambers’ conviction and sentence on direct appeal, concluding, among other things, that his life sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 2007,…
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