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STATE v. JOHNSON

No. C3-99-1351.

616 N.W.2d 720 (2000)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Sammie Lamont JOHNSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

September 7, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Stuart, Minnesota Public Defender, Ann McCaughan, Assistant Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Michael A. Hatch, State Attorney General, St. Paul, Amy Klobuchar, Hennepin County Attorney, Mary M. Lynch, Minneapolis, for respondent.

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

OPINION

RUSSELL A. ANDERSON, Justice.

We review appellant Sammie Lamont Johnson's convictions and sentences for the crimes of first-degree premeditated murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1998), and first-degree felony-murder during the commission of an aggravated robbery, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(3) (1998). On appeal, Johnson argues that the state's peremptory strike of an African American woman from the venire constituted purposeful racial discrimination...

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