JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 50834.

295 N.W.2d 550 (1980)

Warren Earl JOHNSON, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota and the Minnesota Corrections Board, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Kathleen K. Rauenhorst, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for petitioner, appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., and David L. Valentini, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondents.

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


KELLY, Justice.

This is an appeal by Warren Earl Johnson, who was committed to the custody of the Youth Conservation Commission in 1974 for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery, from an order of the committing district court affirming the decision of the Minnesota Corrections Board refusing to discharge Johnson on his 25th birthday and transferring him from youth to adult status. The issue on appeal is whether the state met its burden of proving that an absolute...

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