STATE v. HAAVISTO

No. C2-82-845.

339 N.W.2d 746 (1983)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Antti J. HAAVISTO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, Kathy King, Asst. State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Norman B. Coleman, Jr., Linda F. Close, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul; Douglas Johnson, Wadena County Atty., Wadena, for respondent.

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


KELLEY, Justice.

Defendant was charged by indictment with first-degree premeditated murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1982), in the September 6, 1981, shooting death of 41-year-old Bernard Webber of rural Menagha. A district court jury found defendant guilty of the lesser included offense of first-degree heat-of-passion manslaughter, Minn. Stat. § 609.20(1) (1982). The presumptive sentence was an executed term of 54 months in prison pursuant to Minn.Stat...

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