STATE v. ULVINEN

No. 81-130.

313 N.W.2d 425 (1981)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Helen Catherine ULVINEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

December 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doyle & Michales, Stephen Patrick Doyle and Rosanne Wirth, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief Asst. County Atty., Appellate Section, and Rick Osborne, Staff Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard and considered by the Court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder pursuant to Minn.Stat. § 609.05, subd. 1 (1980), imposing criminal liability on one who "intentionally aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires with or otherwise procures" another to commit a crime. We reverse.

Carol Hoffman, appellant's daughter-in-law, was murdered late on the evening of August 10th or the very early morning of August 11th by her husband, David Hoffman. She and David...

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