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TOWNSEND v. STATE

No. A06-45.

723 N.W.2d 14 (2006)

Otha Eric TOWNSEND, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 26, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, Susan Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney, Mark Nathan Lystig, Assistant Ramsey County Attorney, St. Paul, MN, For Respondent.

Otha Eric Townsend, Bayport, MN, pro se.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court without oral argument.

OPINION

HANSON, Justice.

Appellant Otha Eric Townsend appeals from the district court's denial of his third petition for postconviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. Townsend was convicted of first-degree murder in 1994, and we affirmed his conviction on direct appeal. We subsequently affirmed the denial of his two earlier petitions for postconviction relief. The district court denied Townsend's third petition without an evidentiary hearing because...

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