STATE v. JOHNSON

No. C8-91-2266.

498 N.W.2d 10 (1993)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Richard Robert JOHNSON, Appellant,

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Stuart, State Public Defender, Lawrence W. Pry, Asst. State Public Defender, St. Paul, and Richard R. Johnson, Stillwater, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, and Michael O. Freeman, Hennepin County Atty., J. Michael Richardson, Asst. County Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

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


SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant-appellant Johnson was convicted, following a jury trial in Hennepin County District Court, of first degree murder in violation of Minn.Stat. § 609.185(2) (1989),1 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, defendant, a Native American, challenges as reversible error the admission of both genetic DNA typing evidence showing a matching genetic profile for...

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