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POWERS v. STATE

No. A04-31.

688 N.W.2d 559 (2004)

Vernon Neal POWERS, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Granted November 19, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlan Goulett, Harlan M. Goulett & Associates, Minneapolis, for Appellant.

Mike Hatch, Minnesota Attorney General, Thomas Rolf Ragatz, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul; and Patrick William Flanagan, Mower County Attorney Office, Austin, for Respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.

OPINION

HANSON, Justice.

Appellant Vernon Neal Powers seeks postconviction review of his convictions of first-degree murder and first-degree assault in connection with the murders of Juan Ramirez and Raul Gutierrez, and the shooting of Benjamin Hernandez, on June 30, 2000, in Austin, Minnesota. The district court sentenced Powers to two mandatory life sentences for two first-degree premeditated murder convictions and a presumptive sentence of 86 months for...

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