STATE v. SCOTT

No. CX-91-2477.

493 N.W.2d 546 (1992)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. James L. SCOTT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

December 11, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Stuart, State Public Defender, Susan J. Andrews, Asst. State Public Defender, St. Paul, for appellant.

James L. Scott, pro se.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Paul R. Kempainen, William F. Klumpp, Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, and Gaylord Saetre, Todd County Atty., Long Prairie, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


COYNE, Justice.

Defendant, convicted of first-degree murder in the April 14, 1990, shotgun slaying of Dale Yungk and sentenced to life in prison, contends on appeal, inter alia, that the prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge to remove the only black person on the venire constituted racial discrimination in violation of the fourteenth amendment and that the admission of evidence of his separately-tried and nontestifying codefendant's extrajudicial confession...

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