Legal Opinion
Robinson v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 7, 1997No. C8-96-2044PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARDEBRING, Justice.
Spencer Robinson was convicted of first-degree murder in the September 16, 1993 shooting death of Karl Boswell in Minneapolis. He appealed his conviction to this court, which affirmed. State v. Robinson, 536 N.W.2d 1 (Minn.1995). Because the facts of the offense are detailed in our opinion on his direct appeal, we do not reiterate them here.
Robinson brings this petition for postcon-viction relief, alleging he was denied the effective assistance of counsel by numerous errors on the part of both his trial and his appellate counsel. The postconviction court denied all…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- State v. KnafflaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
- Scruggs v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1992
- Roby v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1995
- Hodgson v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1995
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3Cited by38 opinions
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