STATE v. FOSSEN

No. 48759.

282 N.W.2d 496 (1979)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Gary Bruce FOSSEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meshbesher, Singer & Spence, Ronald I. Meshbesher and Carol Grant, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Robert W. Johnson, County Atty., and Edwin M. Wistrand, Asst. County Atty., Anoka, for respondent.

Heard before PETERSON, KELLY, and SCOTT, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

SCOTT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of three counts of second degree murder entered by the district court in Anoka County after a jury trial on an indictment which charged defendant with three counts of first degree murder for the shotgun slayings of his father, mother, and sister. The judgment provided that three indeterminate sentences of 0 to 40 years be served concurrently. We affirm.

At the time of the shootings...

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