Brian Keith Hooper v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

Appellant Brian Keith Hooper appeals the postconviction court’s summary denial of his fourth petition for postconviction relief. See State v. Hooper (Hooper I), 620 N.W.2d 31 (Minn. 2000); State v. Hooper (Hooper II), 680 N.W.2d 89 (Minn. 2004); State v. Hooper (Hooper III), 838 N.W.2d 775 (Minn. 2013). The postconviction court denied Hooper’s petition as untimely under Minn. Stat. § 590.01, subd. 4 (2014), and his previously raised claims as procedurally barred under State v. Knaffla, 309 Minn. 246, 252, 243 N.W.2d 737, 741 (1976). We affirm.

I

In April 1998, police…