STATE v. HOWARD

No. C1-84-2252.

373 N.W.2d 596 (1985)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Donald Wayne HOWARD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Ellis, Douglas W. Thomson, St. Paul, for appellant.

Julius Gernes, Winona County Atty., Winona, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Minnesota Atty. Gen., Janet A. Newberg, St. Paul, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


COYNE, Justice.

The issue on this appeal from the denial of postconviction relief is whether petitioner, who is serving a life term for the 1977 murder of his wife, should receive a new trial on the ground that some of the evidence admitted at his trial was the suppressible fruit of an unlawful warrantless entry of his home by the police to arrest him. We hold that the arrest was legal and affirm.

Early in the evening of August 13, 1977, petitioner's wife...

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