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STATE v. LEMIRE

No. 81-169.

315 N.W.2d 606 (1982)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. John David LEMIRE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 12, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Juster, Feikema, Malmon & Haskvitz and Ronald L. Haskvitz, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Gary Hansen and Richard D. Hodsdon, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, John R. Leitner, County Atty., Aitkin, for respondent.

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

YETKA, Justice.

Appellant, John David Lemire, was convicted of first-degree murder in violation of Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1980) in the brutal stabbing death of 70-year-old Inga Warren. He was tried by a jury in Itasca County District Court following a change of venue from Aitkin County, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Essential to the state's case on the element of premeditation was the testimony of Timothy Tibbetts, an admitted accomplice...

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