STATE v. COLE

No. C0-95-648.

542 N.W.2d 43 (1996)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Phillip Lewis COLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Attorney General, St. Paul, Michael Junge, McLeod County Attorney, Jody Winters, Assistant McLeod County Attorney, Glencoe, for respondent.

John M. Stuart, Minnesota State Public Defender, Leslie J. Rosenberg, Special Assistant State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

On December 15, 1989, Hutchinson police officer Michael Hogan was shot and killed while investigating the return of stolen merchandise to the J.C. Penney department store in Hutchinson, Minnesota. Petitioner, Phillip Lewis Cole, was indicted for the murder of Officer Hogan and for other crimes which occurred during a three-day period from December 15 to December 18, 1989. At trial, Cole pleaded guilty to felony theft, and a jury...

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