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STATE v. NGOC VAN VU

No. C8-82-770.

339 N.W.2d 892 (1983)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. NGOC VAN VU, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 10, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, Minneapolis, Edgar H. Rex, Jr., Spec. Asst. State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief-Appellate Section, Rick Osborne, Michael Richardson, Asst. County Attys., Beverly J. Wolfe, Staff Atty. by Michael Richardson, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.

YETKA, Justice.

Le Thi Bui was found strangled to death in her apartment on August 28, 1981. Following is a summary of the events leading up to her death.

Defendant, Ngoc Van Vu, emigrated to the United States from Viet Nam in 1975. He met Le Thi Bui, also a Vietnamese emigrant, in 1977, when both were employed by Goldberger Foods, Inc., in Minneapolis. In September 1980, defendant, Ms. Bui, and Ms. Bui's 13-year-old daughter Julie moved into an apartment...

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