STATE v. WELLE

No. A13-0256.

847 N.W.2d 52 (2014)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Paul Joseph WELLE, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

May 27, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson , Attorney General, Karen B. Andrews , Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Mark S. Rubin , St. Louis County Attorney, Duluth, MN, for respondent.

Cathryn Middlebrook , Chief Appellate Public Defender, Roy G. Spurbeck , Assistant Public Defender, St. Paul, MN, for appellant.

Considered and decided by HUDSON, Presiding Judge; PETERSON, Judge; and RANDALL, Judge.


OPINION

HUDSON, Judge.

Appellant challenges his convictions of unintentional second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter, arguing that the admission of his three prior assaults as other-acts or Spreigl evidence constituted impermissible character evidence. Because we conclude that the district court abused its discretion by admitting the evidence to rebut appellant's self-defense claim when that evidence did not tend to disprove the elements...

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