STATE v. HOFFMAN

No. 81-591.

328 N.W.2d 709 (1982)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. David Francis HOFFMAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

December 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Kelly, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief, Appellate Section, Michael McGlennen and Thomas A. Weist, Asst. County Attys., and Beverly J. Wolfe, Staff Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

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


TODD, Justice.

David Hoffman was convicted of first degree murder in the brutal slaying of his wife. During interrogation he had implicated his mother who was charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. We reversed her conviction in State v. Ulvinen, 313 N.W.2d 425 (Minn.1981). Hoffman contends his conviction should be reversed because of the improper admission of a confession, improper jury instructions regarding...

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