STATE v. BURROWS

No. 50113.

295 N.W.2d 100 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Joseph Francis BURROWS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Mark F. Anderson, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Robert W. Johnson, County Atty., and J. Diane Savage, Asst. County Atty., Anoka, for respondent.

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


PETERSON, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of aggravated robbery, Minn.Stat. § 609.245 (1978), and was sentenced by the trial court to a 1- to 20-year prison term. The sole issue on this appeal from judgment of conviction is whether the trial court prejudicially erred in denying a defense motion to bar the prosecutor from cross-examining defendant about his two prior convictions, one in 1975 and one in 1976, for unauthorized...

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