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STATE v. TOVAR

No. C6-99-520.

605 N.W.2d 717 (2000)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Alex Chico TOVAR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 17, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Davis, Special Assistant State Public Defender, St. Paul, for appellant.

Michael A. Hatch, State Attorney General, St. Paul, Susan Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney, by Mark Nathan Lystig, Assistant Ramsey County Attorney, St. Paul, for respondent.

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

OPINION

GILBERT, Justice.

This matter comes to us as an appeal of right from a conviction of murder in the first degree in Ramsey County District Court. The jury found Alex Chico Tovar (Tovar) guilty of first-degree murder while committing a kidnapping, and other lesserincluded offenses, in the January 31, 1998 killing of Joshua James Christenson (Christenson).

On appeal, Tovar raises four issues. Tovar challenges as error the district court's exclusion...

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