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STATE v. JOHNSON

Nos. C7-88-2023, C9-88-2038, C3-88-2049, CX-88-2050, C3-88-2052 and C6-88-2093.

441 N.W.2d 460 (1989)

STATE of Minnesota, Plaintiff (C7-88-2023) — Respondent, v. Violet JOHNSON, et al., Defendants, Leroy Varney, et al., Appellants (C9-88-2038) — Petitioners (C3-88-2052), Robert Joseph Olson, Appellant (C3-88-2049) — Petitioner (CX-88-2050), Angela Marie Doyle, Appellant (C6-88-2093).

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy K. Olkon, Minneapolis, for Angela Doyle.

Robert J. Sorenson, and Daniel E. O'Brien, Public Defender's Office, Minneapolis, for Robert Olson.

Warren Sagstuen, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for Leroy Varney, et al.

Michael J. Colich, Colich & Cahill, Minneapolis, for Roderick Miller.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, and Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Robert Stanich, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, amicus Atty. Gen.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.

YETKA, Justice.

Defendants were indicted by Hennepin County grand juries in November 1987 and March 1988. They moved for a dismissal of the indictments due to numerous prosecutorial errors. The Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial District appointed a four-judge panel to hear the issues common to all cases. Twenty-two cases were consolidated before the panel, which found numerous errors, but held them all to be harmless and denied defense motions to dismiss the indictments...

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