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STATE v. JONES

No. C4-82-1298.

347 N.W.2d 796 (1984)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. William D. JONES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, Susan K. Maki, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Michael Milligan, Cass County Atty., Walker, for respondent.

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

WAHL, Justice.

William Jones was convicted of the first-degree murder of Deborah Jean Fairbanks in violation of Minn.Stat. §§ 609.185(1) and 609.05(1) and (2) (1982). Edwin Monroe, who stabbed Fairbanks 35 times with a hunting knife and was permitted to plead guilty to the charge of murder in the second degree, testified at trial that Jones had held Fairbanks down while he, Monroe, killed her. Jones raises claims of trial error on appeal, but his main contention...

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