STATE v. AMOS

No. C5-83-297.

347 N.W.2d 498 (1984)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Donald R. AMOS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Mary E. Steenson, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief Appellate Section, Richard Osborne, J. Michael Richardson, Asst. County Attys., Beverly J. Wolfe, Staff Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

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


SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant appeals his conviction for first-degree murder, claiming that premeditation is lacking as a matter of law and that various trial errors require a new trial or at least that the conviction should be reduced to second-degree murder. We affirm.

On August 7, 1982, at about 6 p.m., defendant Donald R. Amos shot and killed John Coles at the intersection of Eighth Street and Emerson Avenue North in Minneapolis. The victim, Coles, driving...

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