POWERS v. STATE

No. A04-2298.

695 N.W.2d 371 (2005)

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

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 5, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernon Powers, Stillwater, MN, for Appellant.

Mike Hatch, Minnesota Attorney General, Thomas R. Ragatz, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, Patrick Flanagan, Mower County Attorney, Austin, MN, for Respondent.

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


OPINION

ANDERSON, PAUL H., Justice.

A Mower County jury found appellant Vernon Neal Powers guilty of multiple counts of first- and second-degree murder for robbing and causing the death of Juan Ramirez and Raul Gutierrez, and first-degree assault for shooting Benjamin Hernandez. Powers was convicted and sentenced to two mandatory life sentences for the two first-degree premeditated murder convictions and a presumptive...

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