STATE v. MORGAN

No. 45329.

246 N.W.2d 165 (1976)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. John Pierpont MORGAN, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied October 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Bruce C. Douglas, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Peter W. Sipkins, Sol. Gen., Richard B. Allyn, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, John L. Plattner, County Atty., Walker, for respondent.

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


MacLAUGHLIN, Justice.

Defendant, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., was found guilty by a jury in Ramsey County District Court of two counts of first-degree murder. Defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction on the grounds that the trial court erroneously admitted evidence of defendant's participation in other crimes and abused its discretion in failing to sequester the jury or continue the trial in light of pretrial publicity. We affirm.

On August 3, 1973...

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