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STATE v. CROWSBREAST

No. C8-99-1913.

629 N.W.2d 433 (2001)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Burr CROWSBREAST, III, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Stuart, State Public Defender, Theodora Gaitas, Asst. State Public Defender, Minneapolis, attorney for appellant.

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, James B. Early, Asst. Attorney General, St. Paul, and Thomas G. Kramer, Yellow Medicine County Attorney, Granite Falls, attorney for respondent.

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

OPINION

LANCASTER, Justice.

A Yellow Medicine County jury found Burr Crowsbreast, III guilty of first-degree domestic abuse homicide, first-degree premeditated murder, second-degree intentional murder, second-degree felony murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault for beating his girlfriend Latisha Brien to death with a baseball bat. While he was incarcerated and awaiting trial, Crowsbreast voluntarily confessed to killing Brien. At trial, counsel...

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