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WHITTAKER v. STATE

No. A07-2397.

753 N.W.2d 668 (2008)

Karon Allen WHITTAKER, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 31, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nekima Levy-Pounds, Artika Tyner, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, Michael O. Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney, for respondent.

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

OPINION

MEYER, Justice.

Appellant Karon Allen Whittaker, currently serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, has filed a petition for postconviction relief in which he asserts that newly-discovered evidence requires that he receive a new trial. The district court denied Whittaker's petition without an evidentiary hearing, and we affirm.

On the night of January 29, 1996, two armed men forcibly entered...

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