STATE v. BLACK

No. 49314.

291 N.W.2d 208 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. James Willis BLACK, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Robert D. Goodell, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief, Appellate Div., David W. Larson and Toni Beitz, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

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


SCOTT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of three counts of first degree murder by a jury in the Hennepin County District Court. In separate trials, defendant's two accomplices, Jean Link1 and Dale Olson, were also convicted on three counts each of first degree murder. Link's statements to police after her arrest and her testimony at her own trial were introduced at defendant's trial after Link herself refused to testify. Defendant...

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