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STATE v. HARRIS

No. 50153.

298 N.W.2d 356 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Ronald Edward HARRIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Mary Steenson, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas Johnson, County Atty., Vernon Bergstrom, David Larson, Asst. County Attys., Thomas Weist, Law Clerk, Minneapolis, for respondent.

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

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

Defendant, who was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a fellow tenant, was found guilty by a district court jury of the lesser offense of second-degree manslaughter. Minn. Stat. § 609.205(1) (1978) (causing death by culpable negligence in creating unreasonable risk and consciously taking chance of causing death or great bodily harm to another). The trial court sentenced defendant to a prison term of 1 year and 1...

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