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STATE v. JENSON

No. 81-281.

312 N.W.2d 673 (1981)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Mark A. JENSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

December 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Juster, Feikema, Malmon & Haskvitz and J. Christopher Cuneo, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., and Gary Hansen, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Michael Milligan, County Atty., Walker, for respondent.

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

TODD, Justice.

Defendant, charged by indictment for first-degree murder, entered a so-called Alford [North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25, 91 S.Ct. 160, 27 L.Ed.2d 162 (1970)] guilty plea to second-degree murder, saying in effect that he denied his guilt but yet wanted to judicially admit it because he believed that if he went to trial there was a grave risk, in view of the strong evidence against him, that he would be found...

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