STATE v. PEIRCE

No. C7-83-1774.

364 N.W.2d 801 (1985)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Mitchell PEIRCE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Cromett, St. Paul, for appellant.

Thomas L. Johnson, Co. Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Richard Osborne, J. Michael Richardson, Paul R. Jennings, and Beverly J. Wolfe, Asst. Co. Attys., Minneapolis, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.


SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant-appellant Mitchell Peirce appeals his conviction for first-degree murder (causing unintentional death during criminal sexual conduct), second-degree murder (causing unintentional death during a burglary), and his life imprisonment sentence on the first-degree murder conviction. We affirm.1

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