STATE v. HIGGINBOTHAM

No. 43833.

212 N.W.2d 881 (1973)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Gary R. HIGGINBOTHAM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Murrin, Legal Rights Center, Inc., Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, George M. Scott, County Atty., Theodore R. Rix, Vernon E. Bergstrom, and Michael H. McGlennen, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and ROGOSHESKE, PETERSON, and KELLY, JJ.


ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

Defendant, Gary Higginbotham, appeals from a second-degree murder conviction. Because we hold inadmissible a declaration against penal interest which is not proven trustworthy by independent evidence, and because the United States Supreme Court has held that the Sixth Amendment does not grant the right to have counsel present at a postindictment photographic identification, we affirm the conviction.

The killing occurred as a result of...

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