STATE v. EPPS

A19-1626.

949 N.W.2d 474 (2020)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Melvin DeVaughn EPPS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Filed August 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Ellison , Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Michael O. Freeman , Hennepin County Attorney, Brittany D. Lawonn , Assistant County Attorney, Minneapolis, Minnesota (for respondent).

Cathryn Middlebrook , Chief Appellate Public Defender, Jennifer Workman Jesness , Assistant Public Defender, St. Paul, Minnesota (for appellant).

Considered and decided by Jesson, Presiding Judge; Worke, Judge; and Hooten, Judge.


OPINION

In this direct appeal from the judgment of conviction for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, appellant argues that the prosecutor committed misconduct by misstating the law in his closing argument when he told the jury that it did not have to unanimously agree that the defendant used either force or coercion to...

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